This is a good time to tell you folks a story about rattles. Back in the 60's UAW had a strike against Mercury part of Ford. The strike went on for a while and Mercury hired temps to help build cars. I was working at the Ford dealership in the parts dept. Our sister dealership was the Mercury dealership. I used to deliver parts to the Mercury dealer, so I was over their ever day.
Mercury guys had a customer that bought a new Lincoln Towncar. Expensive. Right after he bought it, he started bringing it in for rattles. Drove him crazy Brought it in over and over. Just bringing it in because a sort of joke among us, "has Bubba (not his name) brought his car in again this week? Yep, there it is..".
He claimed a rattle when he stopped fast, or made a left or right turn. People rode with him, and yes heard it. No one could find it. This went on for months. He threatened to return the car, they promised to find it next time. Finally the region rep told the dealership to give him a loaner (that never happened) and keep his car until they found it.
They eventually found it. Two of them. They had to replace a welded cross-member under the car and a rear door (and paint it.). When they found both, there was a note with the rattle. In side the welded cross-member was a Jack Daniels whiskey bottle - you know the square bottom one - it had ball bearings in it. The other one, they had to cut the bottom baffles out of a car door to get to it. Same thing. Both bottles had a note wrapped around the outside. It showed the date, the name of the plant and even a name of the scab that was the temp worker. And the notes had a question to no one in particular, "How long did it take you to find this?" They had sabotaged a bunch of cars going different places/states to screw with Mercury for hiring temps.
No saying this is what's wrong with our door rattles. Just sharing.
