The foam strip is on the door, near the hinge. the picture is taken from the a pilar with the driver door opened.
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Solved: wind noise
- Thread starter dutchchili
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Is your s due to window poor alignment? My service tech told me some times it's windows alignment, but most of the time it's from the mirror cover gaps. He told me to tape up the mirror and see if that helps.
I haven't worked on my flapping noise inside A pillar yet. My tech gave me some foam and showed me where I can shove it.
Tesla aren't doing drive along with customers during COVID so they aren't going to take care of it yet.
The same kind of random soft foam you get in electronics packaging. Just a piece of dark grey foam. He said instead of approaching from the driver's wheel well exterior trim, he suggested to open the console caps and open the a pillar directly and shove some foam under that a pillar. I haven't done it so I have no idea what it looks like.
What are the console caps? Are you talking about removing the A-pillar headliner trim inside the vehicle?
Yes. The console caps are the triangle plastic on the left and right of the main dashboard console. These are interior trims I'm talking about. Again I haven't done this so don't go down the rabbit hole. It's easy to pop off and take a look yourself btw. Shove some foam up in A pillar below the airbags is my thinking.
Yea, that didn't fix anything for me. They did replace the triangle rubber gaskets near the A pillar on both sides, improved on driver's side but passenger's side is still a wind tunnel/
Did they readjust your windows? There's someone who posted many videos of it. I think you even participated in that thread.
Ya can be done by mobile or you. My mobile techs are not doing ride along so they are not fixing rattles/noises. But I also heard Tesla has a 10k mile one year thing for rattles/wind noise.
Edit. I decided to do a service request anyways. Last time they pulled some BS on me with my trunk alignment. Saying it was out of their good will window and charged me $75 per panel ... Such bs
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@PNWLeccy Do you have any video of your wind noise situation?
I just fixed my wind flappy A pillar noise. I posted it
Wind Noise at A-pillar FLAPPING Sound - Solved for now
I just fixed my wind flappy A pillar noise. I posted it
Wind Noise at A-pillar FLAPPING Sound - Solved for now
I can try to get some video but it's difficult as it's coming from the passenger side. It sounds a little bit different from yours, more of a buffeting noise than a flapping noise(?) but it could be the same cause.
I saw someone else who did the same thing as you but I just haven't pulled back the wheel well liner to do it myself yet. I had assumed the triangle rubber seal that fixed the wind noise for me on the drivers side was the same root cause as the noise on the passenger side. The replacement they put in is also deformed so I don't have a good idea if what is effecting the passenger side is different than the drivers side yet for me.
I was disappointed in my noise reduction yesterday, when I was noticing a noise from my driver side window. (I don't spend much time on highway or Interstate.) Then on a whim, I pressed the window up button and it went away. Then all I heard was tire noise.
Thanks to all who helped me with my wind noise.
Thanks to all who helped me with my wind noise.
Yeah it really helps, huh? It isn't perfect but it does reduce wind noise by a lot at high speeds. I used closed cell foam because it can't absorb water to try to prevent possible future rust and to help reduce any noise wind trying to pass through.
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