Ohm’s Law
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My front end rattle persists.
The service center previously told me that the rattle was coming from my headlights. (seriously) They said they had the car on the lift and could not reproduce the sound by smacking the underside of the tires but that it was reproducible when they tapped the headlights. Now, the headlights do have a bit of a rattle (as shown in video) so I removed the bumper skin and both headlights. The sound persists with the headlights and bumper skin removed. (as seen in video).
Now that my car is at 68k miles, I am out of warranty and I am faced with having the service center re-diagnose the noise to the tune of $175.
I checked over everything in the front suspension for looseness (including sway bar links) and found nothing. I think the struts themselves will prove to be the culprit.
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The service center previously told me that the rattle was coming from my headlights. (seriously) They said they had the car on the lift and could not reproduce the sound by smacking the underside of the tires but that it was reproducible when they tapped the headlights. Now, the headlights do have a bit of a rattle (as shown in video) so I removed the bumper skin and both headlights. The sound persists with the headlights and bumper skin removed. (as seen in video).
Now that my car is at 68k miles, I am out of warranty and I am faced with having the service center re-diagnose the noise to the tune of $175.
I checked over everything in the front suspension for looseness (including sway bar links) and found nothing. I think the struts themselves will prove to be the culprit.
Dropbox - 85D.MOV
Dropbox - 85D_.MOV
Dropbox - strut.jpg
Dropbox - strut2.jpg