Hello everyone, please take a look at this video about five seconds in and see if you can give me any clues on where this vibration/rattle is coming from. The only other major one I’ve had is the front wheel wells which I fixed with foam, but after searching for hours I cannot find the source of this one. Any any help would be appreciated!
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Vibration/ rattle in backseat area of 2023 model 3
- Thread starter Sweeptheleg1
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Candleflame
Active Member
if you keep pushing against the rearseat does it create the noise? tbh i cant hear much in the video.
Birdsfan
Member
I'm not picking up the noise either. I was having a rattle just a few weeks ago and I thought it was coming from the rear seat/deck area but I was not able to recreate it on demand. It has gone away, lucky me.
I am picking this noise 
it most likely will be the rattle of the retainer hole and bi-fold seat "bolt" do not know how to name it the right way.
in short, the hole diameter is slightly bigger than the folding bar/bolt and it rattles.
there is plastic sleeve which is there in order to seal the gap and it sometimes falls off
it most likely will be the rattle of the retainer hole and bi-fold seat "bolt" do not know how to name it the right way.
in short, the hole diameter is slightly bigger than the folding bar/bolt and it rattles.
there is plastic sleeve which is there in order to seal the gap and it sometimes falls off
Candleflame
Active Member
this sounds to me like a loose screw somewhere.... and whats this whining... do you have a cat in the car? :O
I have the same exact noise in my model 3 too. Took it in twice, first time was rear door adjustment and second time they tightened some things in the c pillar, but the rattle is still there. Did you get your issue resolved?
My model 3 sounds the same, from the second I start rolling to the second I stop. With the exception of when I bring it into service, then it's quiet. I reach back and put pressure on the door panel it stops, after watching one of the videos above I'm tempted to take the panel off and add some double sided tape to it to see if that fixes it.
When I went to service, the tech did fix door handle not seated properly in the panel, but I still have the same noise. Usually when my car is parked under the Sun for a while that’s when the noise comes up
After taking my door panel apart, I put double sided tape on all the wire connections that hold it to the door, and I noticed the cable that allows you to open the door without a panel there rattled and made tons of noise, so I double side taped it to the door, it was wrapped in foam, so I taped all the way around it, then stuck it to the door, and that seemed to fix the problem
Nice. I wish I was that handy haha. I have another appointment coming up to check the rattle. I’ll see what they can do. And they have an estimate now for looking at rattles but will waive if it’s due to faulty parts.
believe me. im not a handyman. last couple things i tried to fix on my model s ended up costing me thousands of dollars
Hope it works for you. I took my car to Tesla for test drive with tech. And as I expected, no noise when tech is thereI ordered some on Amazon, can never find anything I need in stores
. So they couldn’t do anything. They also said the mild noise when u tap on the back of the seats (when folded down) is normal.
