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oh my gosh my car is fudged :\ i was driving around yesterday and i went over a speed bump and i scraped (what i usually do on speed bumps) and now something under my hand brake rattles like a mofo, i think its the exaughst ratteling against anyhting and everything under there but im not sure... has anyone had this problem?
thanks.
have you had a look under the car yet?
my mate did and he said he couldnt see anyhting that wasnt normal...
Try moving the exhaust pipe with your hand near the handbrake area and see if its rubbing against anything? Jack it up first of course...
...and make sure it's not hot of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by HyperZ
It might be your Catalyst's heat shield if you're lucky.
"It might be your Catalyst's heat shield if you're lucky."
nar i took that out when i put in my short shifter...
Also check that your header braket (near your O2 sensor, holds the header in place) is not damaged.
could possibly have broken something holding the headers to cat? or maybe something inside the cat has broken
if thers noise difference upon throttle, IE more throttle or less at diff revs, sounds like exhaust pipe bumpin against something, do what the guys said, jack it up make sure its cold then shake it like a mofo! could b anything from the exhaust rubber holders outta place, to something snaped along the pipes and stuff, look for scrape marks, new ones ofcourse and check out that area, it happened to me and ended up to busted my exhaust pipe.
not trying to be a prick but that noise could be absolultey anything...
no one here can help you.. go under the car and find it :)
the guts of your cat convertor could of fallen apart.
hand brake rattle ? what's the noise like ?
" look for scrape marks,"
fark ima be there ALL day...i got so many scratches a suicidal person would be asking me my secrets...
ill check tumora, my mate is an apprentise merchanic so ima go to his workshop and jack it up and check properly tumora.
HOPEFULLY it isnt bad lol
just take it to an exhaust shop, they'll look at it and fix it for like 10 bucks (in my experience) if it's something simple like a bracket or loose bolt
it may be the exhaust pipe.. or otherwise above the exhaust there is actually a shield that runs from just under the gear stick all the way back to about where the handbreak is.. check that... too.. might help..
mate...i agree take it to exhaust place...i go there so frequent they are doing it for free for me sometimes...last time my resonator was dislocated hahaha....dun ask me how it happens...my resonator is like 5 cm from the ground...and cost me about 30 bucks to fix....so just take it there...easiest...otherwise u'll spend all day and nite weeks and months looking for the problem...
i went to midas today and they said ti wasnt good, its my exaughst against my chasis adn theres nthign they can do so im stuck wiht it 4 life :\
so even when u change exhaust it'll be like that?
o...do u mean..its ur chassis thats bent?...then ur officially done
it's quite hard to bend the chassis, if not impossible, jsut by scrapin.
you could of bent the exhaust. which is also quite hard to do by scrapin..
sounds odds, your ehxaust against the chassis of the car.
maybe get another person to look at it.. like an exhaust place.
midas is an exaughst place...but yeh ill get it checked out by a 2nd party. and yeh i think they said my exaughst is bent and wobberly, not my accual chasis
Some smash repair places do have the machine to bend the chassis back into place but i highly doubt that would be the problem. Im gonna say bent/broken exhaust.
Convertor sounds like it is damaged..Just hit it with your hand and if it rattles then you know..
just take it to an exhaust specialist...