That feel when.

"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock) 05/07/2015 at 12:28 • Filed to: None

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You finally find out what that rattle was. I got you, you sonuvabitch. Now my OCD can rest for another day.

Funktheduck > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/07/2015 at 12:33

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Had a rattle driving me nuts this morning. Figured out it was a plastic bag next to the door speaker.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Funktheduck 05/07/2015 at 12:38

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Mine was a slightly loose cable for the seat folding mechanism. One zip tie later, no more rattles.

Rock Bottom > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/07/2015 at 12:39

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I once had a rattle in a dashboard. Then the exhaust rusted through and I couldn’t hear the rattle anymore. I drove it like that for months, then finally got off my ass and fixed the exhaust.

I was all like “Oh yeah, I remember that rattle”... never did find it.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Rock Bottom 05/07/2015 at 13:01

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I get obsessed with rattles and such. Mine was only audible over 75mph (which I don’t hit often) but I still couldn’t leave it alone.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/07/2015 at 13:15

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I’ve given up hunting for all my squeaks and rattles. I went through and tightened the fasteners I could find and coated all the pivot points and hinges with white lithium grease, and it made things a bit better, but eventually I just had to consign myself to the fact that a Lada is going to squeak and rattle. Then my exhaust fell apart and I pieced it back together on the cheap, so now it’s effectively straight piped (with a $35 glasspack under the rear bumper), and now all the squeaks and rattles have disappeared. They’re not gone, but I can’t hear them anymore, so same difference, right?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 05/07/2015 at 13:26

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Louder exhaust/ turning the radio up is a valid fix for rattles for sure. I just turned up my music until I got this one fixed haha.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/07/2015 at 14:31

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My exhaust was the only music I could turn up... because no stereo... because Lada. :p

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 05/07/2015 at 14:39

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Haha, it’s one less thing to break.

Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/07/2015 at 23:07

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The only thing I changed this year was replacing my exhaust bands (from 1” to 3”) to solve a nasty exhaust leak. But all of a sudden I have this gross, loud, metallic rattle. Searched for it for months... nothing. Last week, after some spirited driving the top bolt of my drivers side front caliper bracket removed itself from the car while I was cruising down the highway. O.K., this must have been the rattle, right... Wrong! After replacing the bolt (and putting LokTite Red on all the caliper bracket bolts on all four corners), the rattle is still there and now I have a squeak from the brake that lost a bolt.

Well I was under the car this afternoon and guess what, I found and fixed the rattle. My new exhaust has 4 sockets for O2 sensors. My car only has 2. The other two sockets had plugs in them. The plugs are a different material than the exhaust so when cooled they seem tight, but with only a few minutes of the car running, they were loose enough to rattle. More Loktite all over the plugs and the rattle is gone.

Now, about that damn brake squeaking, I’m hoping my track day sessions next week will be enough to rebed the pads. Here’s hoping.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight 05/08/2015 at 05:46

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My brakes squeak at low speeds all the time. It stops when they warm up a bit but it’s pretty irritating. I assume they werent bed in properly when they were fitted.

Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/08/2015 at 12:34

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I’m running track day brakes (EBC Yellow Stuff) so they always did squeak just a tad when braking in the city, but when the caliper was dislodged, it screwed up the bed on the inside pad.