| My eunos has a new robbins hood. When going ove a bump there is a rattle like two bars hitting each other , Has anyone had a similar rattle..I sounds like coming from the rear parcel shelf area..any suggestions (12/99) |
| Sounds as though the metal bars around the rim of the hood base (inside) aren't bolted up properly - or something else is loose in that area. Check for leaks in the parcel shelf area too. (12/99) |
| Is this a sort of knocking/rattle when you go over hard bumps? It seems to come from behind the passenger seat, on the parcel shelf area below the window? I get this too on my 10AE. Really starting to irritate me to be honest. (1/00) |
| It seems to come from the back, where the soft top disappears under the car body, just in front of the hood. ( sorry can't find a better description). The window, when going over bumps or even at constant high speed, rattles and causes the top to rattle against the frame that is meant to fasten the soft top cover (the plastic black rail on the back). Only possible solution I can think of is to use some isolation tape the one for window frames and stick it the rail. The rattle will stay but will be silent. Or at least I hope so! Haven't tried yet though. (1/00) |
| This is definately the same rattle, your description is spot on. Your suggested remedy might well work, musr try it at the weekend. If I press my finger on the upper part of the window it usually stops but if I press the bottom it always stops? (1/00) |
| That's the one. Did the finger trick and it works. Don't do it anymore, just turn the music louder. I have to spare some time and fix this. It really gets to me this rattling!! (1/00) |
| I had a strange rattle from behind the drivers seat once. Tracked it down to the wheel brace knocking the inside of the spare wheel on hitting a bump. One piece of foam later no rattles. (1/00) |
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Just a few bits of information gleaned from the past few weeks of hunting down noises from the soft top. The car sounded as if it was falling apart on every bump, and all I'd done was take the hardtop off! (1) Do the obvious thing and check that the latches are tight and the not so obvious..... (2) There's a complicated joint above the middle of the driver/passenger window. On my soft top that joint wasn't extending fully with the top raised - try pulling down on the various bars at that joint to fully extend it. (3) Some of the screws holding the hooked thingys above the windscreen that the latches grab were loose - tighten them (4/01) |