Door rattles when listening to music

Has anyone been able to fix the horrendous rattles from the front door trims when listening to music with even the slightest of bass?

Both my front doors rattle something shocking (left worse then right) even at low levels of volume and bass. The left is so annoying i'm about to stick my foot through the fu*king thing.

I have had many new cars and i have never experienced it so bad in any other car, and that excludes all the other rattles the piece of shit has. Fix one and then another one appears.

I still can't beleive how poor quality these Honda's are and mine has only just reached 6000kms.

Me buy another Honda again? Not even if you paid for it.

mmmm i have a rattle as well but its only when i go over bumpy roads from the passenger car seat. my doors have been fine though

u sure its not something loose in your door or something?

trim isn't seating properly.

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Originally Posted by Crapdaz

u sure its not something loose in your door or something?

trim isn't seating properly.

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They have never been off (had the car since new.) But bythe sounds of it i am going to have to rip the trims off and see whats causing it on both sides.

Anyone have a photo of the clips used on the door trim? I might aswell go buy some as no doubt some will break when pulling it apart.

I get rattles from both the airbag covers near the front windscreen too but this must be common as the demo car also had this problem. More rattles from the dash board and parcel shelf too.

You could try some felt on the inner side of the trim, and may as well put some sound deadening in the door while you are at it. That should get rid of your rattles and improve your sound quality.

Sorry you're not enjoying your Honda like the rest of us.

there wasy a guy in this forum that had the same issue. He basically filled the whole door with fliller taped every frigging cable and bolted all things on the door. Only to discover that the window switch was cousing all the noise :)

Take it back from where ya bought it,should still be under warranty.

as beeza said

take it back to the dealer. its not your probelm you shouldnt be dealing with that
shiot quality manufacturing... get them to fix it :thumbsup::honda:

Apparantley Honda in their ultimate wisdom only pays dealers $1000.00 towards any warranty work resulting in the rectification of rattles etc and only then it's limited to the first 1000kms. After that the dealer themselves must fork out for the repairs themselves which is why the common answer "no fault found" is too commonly heard.

The problem is with Honda Australia. They want all the $$$ and then don't want to know you. The dealer is just there to pick up the pieces and even that asks too much sometimes.

I could go back to the dealer (8th time in 5 mths for warranty work) but i have a strong suspicion they will wipe their hands clean of rattle issues now so all the stuffing around ends up costing me even more money. Better off fixing it yourself.

Interesting enough i noted my paperwork shows an 08 build and so does Hondaone but looking at the plates the other day it indicates the car was made in June 07 but Australian complied Feb 08. To me the car was built in 07, not 08 their paperwork and site claims.

For me i am seriously considering getting rid of the car becuase i've had enough of the car and Honda in general.

yea sounds like your dealer is pretty terrible

mine have been happy to help out when required. have u maybe tried another dealership?

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Originally Posted by The X Man

Apparantley Honda in their ultimate wisdom only pays dealers $1000.00 towards any warranty work resulting in the rectification of rattles etc and only then it's limited to the first 1000kms. After that the dealer themselves must fork out for the repairs themselves which is why the common answer "no fault found" is too commonly heard.

The problem is with Honda Australia. They want all the $$$ and then don't want to know you. The dealer is just there to pick up the pieces and even that asks too much sometimes.

I could go back to the dealer (8th time in 5 mths for warranty work) but i have a strong suspicion they will wipe their hands clean of rattle issues now so all the stuffing around ends up costing me even more money. Better off fixing it yourself.

Interesting enough i noted my paperwork shows an 08 build and so does Hondaone but looking at the plates the other day it indicates the car was made in June 07 but Australian complied Feb 08. To me the car was built in 07, not 08 their paperwork and site claims.

For me i am seriously considering getting rid of the car becuase i've had enough of the car and Honda in general.

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Dynamat the front doors.change dealer service dept.My car(an 06) has 47K,is on lowered,stiffer springs and shocks(Bilstein and Eibach)and has NO rattles at all.:confused:

I recently discovered my source of rattling. Heard it for about 7months until last week.

Heard metalic rattling from the footwell of the passenger side when cruising 5-6th gear on the highway... pull out the glove box, checked engine bay and found nothing... found out that it was my side under spoilers which weren't attached to bottom car properly. The plastic clips somehow gotten loose and was hitting the metal part of the car upon vibration... fixed it and it is absolutely bliss!

ive got the same problem with my EK... but it stops when i lock the door lol

I get the same thing with my door.

There are no door trims or central locking.

I guess i need to tighten up my window? :p

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Originally Posted by The X Man

Apparantley Honda in their ultimate wisdom only pays dealers $1000.00 towards any warranty work resulting in the rectification of rattles etc and only then it's limited to the first 1000kms. After that the dealer themselves must fork out for the repairs themselves which is why the common answer "no fault found" is too commonly heard.

The problem is with Honda Australia. They want all the $$$ and then don't want to know you. The dealer is just there to pick up the pieces and even that asks too much sometimes.

I could go back to the dealer (8th time in 5 mths for warranty work) but i have a strong suspicion they will wipe their hands clean of rattle issues now so all the stuffing around ends up costing me even more money. Better off fixing it yourself.

Interesting enough i noted my paperwork shows an 08 build and so does Hondaone but looking at the plates the other day it indicates the car was made in June 07 but Australian complied Feb 08. To me the car was built in 07, not 08 their paperwork and site claims.

For me i am seriously considering getting rid of the car becuase i've had enough of the car and Honda in general.

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Sounds all too familiar.Big companies only care about big profits at the end of the day.It's just bullsh*t,you have to fight and argue until your blue in the face for them to consider fixing it.
It's like anything though,humans make mistakes,unfortunately you got one of em'...
I would much rather your problem to my problem of hunting down a surging/hesitation problem that took me AGES to find! But I tell ya,I know my engine REAL well now :p

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Originally Posted by beeza

Sounds all too familiar.Big companies only care about big profits at the end of the day.It's just bullsh*t,you have to fight and argue until your blue in the face for them to consider fixing it.
It's like anything though,humans make mistakes,unfortunately you got one of em'...
I would much rather your problem to my problem of hunting down a surging/hesitation problem that took me AGES to find! But I tell ya,I know my engine REAL well now :p

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where was the exact problem causing it to surge and hesitate?
a leak somewhere, vacuum leak?


agreed with rattling problems you can try to disassemble and fix it.

I still can't get the idle right.I feel it's fine now,just needs someone with a bit more knowledge to set it (I hope).
It was a few things.The main thing problem I think was the IACV but the was cause I messed with it a bit too trying to fix it by re-tensioning the spring in there.

The first problem was the stupid resistor I had in the IAT sensor.It was in there for 2 years,the 1st year it was good but then it corroded and caused it to run too lean.As you know honda's run lean from the factory,the resistor tricks the ECU into thinking the inatke air tempreture is 2 degress lower than it is,therefore the ECU compensates by adding more fuel,then is went bad and added more again!
The second was the Map sensor and Tps sensor.I found how you can collaborate the voltages and did that.Much better!
The plugs and leads are fine.I changed the Valve cover gasket and spark plugs gaskets too on the valve cover.
So just the idle needs setting,it's too low,500-600.I've tried the meathod of taking the IACV sensor off,turning the idle screw until best then putting it back on.No workie...

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Originally Posted by beeza

I still can't get the idle right.I feel it's fine now,just needs someone with a bit more knowledge to set it (I hope).
It was a few things.The main thing problem I think was the IACV but the was cause I messed with it a bit too trying to fix it by re-tensioning the spring in there.

The first problem was the stupid resistor I had in the IAT sensor.It was in there for 2 years,the 1st year it was good but then it corroded and caused it to run too lean.As you know honda's run lean from the factory,the resistor tricks the ECU into thinking the inatke air tempreture is 2 degress lower than it is,therefore the ECU compensates by adding more fuel,then is went bad and added more again!
The second was the Map sensor and Tps sensor.I found how you can collaborate the voltages and did that.Much better!
The plugs and leads are fine.I changed the Valve cover gasket and spark plugs gaskets too on the valve cover.
So just the idle needs setting,it's too low,500-600.I've tried the meathod of taking the IACV sensor off,turning the idle screw until best then putting it back on.No workie...

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damn sounds like a headach, with the resistor you tried using heat insulation or rubber insulation.

Nah I just re-connected the IAT (finially),like it should be.I lost the male prt that goes in the intake when I changed to my custom intake.

I edited my post.It was the damn 02 sensor.How's that,I got so confused with all the problems,I forgot what was the REAL problem!

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Originally Posted by The X Man

Has anyone been able to fix the horrendous rattles from the front door trims when listening to music with even the slightest of bass?

Both my front doors rattle something shocking (left worse then right) even at low levels of volume and bass. The left is so annoying i'm about to stick my foot through the fu*king thing.

I have had many new cars and i have never experienced it so bad in any other car, and that excludes all the other rattles the piece of shit has. Fix one and then another one appears.

I still can't beleive how poor quality these Honda's are and mine has only just reached 6000kms.

Me buy another Honda again? Not even if you paid for it.

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The X Man, I definitely have the same speaker problems as you. When it initially happened I thought it was just the stuff I had in my side pockets. One day it got too irritating so I took everything out of my side pocket only to realise it WAS the speakers. :eek: It’s a distorted rattling right? My temporary work around was to just set the fader to R4, so the majority of the sound goes to the rear speakers.

Will have it looked at, at my next service I guess.

maybe its just the plastic clips needs replacing ?

Any warranty issues you take to the dealer they are meant to sort out. Once warranty runs out if the issue still hasn't been fixed they are not meant to charge you to have it fixed. As someone who used to work in the industry I have seen all too many cases where the service advisors just keep putting it off hoping the customer will just go away. People usually ended up just bringing their cars into the centre I was based at. Take it to another Service department.

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Originally Posted by bj_mahoney03

Any warranty issues you take to the dealer they are meant to sort out. Once warranty runs out if the issue still hasn't been fixed they are not meant to charge you to have it fixed. As someone who used to work in the industry I have seen all too many cases where the service advisors just keep putting it off hoping the customer will just go away. People usually ended up just bringing their cars into the centre I was based at. Take it to another Service department.

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How do you prove later on that you had indeed notified the dealer about any warranty issues? I mean, they can SAY to you on the spot: "yeh, yeh... I've entered your complaint into the system *blah*blah*blah*" but how do you know fo-sho? :confused:

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Originally Posted by nickxau

How do you prove later on that you had indeed notified the dealer about any warranty issues? I mean, they can SAY to you on the spot: "yeh, yeh... I've entered your complaint into the system *blah*blah*blah*" but how do you know fo-sho? :confused:

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What they should do is document the problem and then document the outcome ie either fixed or could not duplicate. You should receive a copy of this report.

AHHH... "receive a copy of the report"... thatnks for the info unity!

I have rattles aswell, and whenever it happens i just firmly press against the speaker section next to the door trim and it stops. But as soon as i let go it happens again.

So definitely quality control is wrong.