Thanks to your post and from other
forum I managed to reduce my rattle.
At first I did the usual rear deck adjustments: spraying grease, cracking/opening space between panels, wrapping the rear seat latches but the metal tapping noise still there.
After asking my wife to sit at the back for few hours she said the noise is not coming from rear deck but instead coming from the roofline area.
So I finally open the side airbag panel, seatbelt panel, door weatherstrip and I pull the headline a bit to expose the metal bracket.
But instead of cracking the panels, I opened the bolt and slip some thick tape between the panels.
Finally the metal tapping sound is gone!!
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Originally Posted by sieeegel
This is how i fixed my issue. I discovered that the noise is coming from the passenger side rear airbag. To get at the rear passenger side airbag, refer to this tutorial http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10002
I will skip some steps here and get to the point.
Once you remove the outer plastic trim, you will see the following (See below)
The red outline is where the PRIMARY sound is coming from. Gently tapping the airbag device will reproduce the sound. The clamp (outlined in red) is not fully attached to the chassis and makes a clinking noise. I simply took a 3inch x 3inch piece of t-shirt and wrapped it around the clamp outlined in red to dampen the sound.
In addition, I sprayed from WD40 over the metal clamp outlined in blue.
After i did all that, the noise went away. |