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Old 07-09-2014, 09:59 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by mankarn86 View Post
So i went for a drive and I still hear ticking...so I think you are right. Did you crack the welds yourself? Dealer has visited the issue twice and I doubt they cracked every weld...it sounds like guys have cracked 50+ welds on their own.
How do you know which welds to crack? All of them? lol.
If they already had tried 50+ spots instead of just the 2 spots shown in the TSB, then I wouldn't try it on my own. I would bring it to them one more time and see what they say.

I was lucky that mine had only one spot that was making noise, which is here:

When I pressed the red circled spot with my thumb, it made the cracking sound. I just sprayed some WD-40 as shown in the picture. The noise didn't come back since then and it's almost 2 years now.
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