wontonjohnny

sup all... after serching this entire forum on how to fix the rattling. ive come across people saying to do/check

- dynamat the deck and trunk
- speaker grill
- 3rd break lamp

the rattling wasnt the grills, or 3rd brake lamp for me.

so after trying to get the damn rear deck off i gave up trying to take it off.

then i sat in the back and turned up my sub to pin point the rattling. with the 3rd brake off i could stick my hand down the hole to feel around to try to locate the rattling. and eureka. it was the 2 trunk rods rubbing against the deck.

so to fix this just take a 1 foot pry rod or whatever you have, there is a big square hole where you disconnect the 3rd brake lamp and a where the rods criss cross and are held in by a plastic clip. just shove the rod in and pry the metal down towards the floor, 1/2 inch should do. this is from the trunk of course. this will give the bars the clearance they need.

hope this helps somebody.

97BlackAckCL

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I was always thinking about bending those, I definately pinpointed them too as part of my rattle. I was always scared to bend them, since they're the lifts for the trunk, but you're saying to bend them like 1/2" that's not too bad. Does your trunk pop up any differently?

arvsi

I had a simpler fix, I just took the trunk bars out. Helped make room for 6x9s with huge magnets. Makes the trunk a lot harder to open, especially with several layers of dynamat. Hate to say the trunk still rattles though...

ajtcl

Why not wrap a little insulator tape around them. That would do it rather than bending them, I would think.

teh CL

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im gonna try this 2morrow...my car rattles and i have a stock system

wontonjohnny

yeah the bars dont like to bend without a fight.... you dont need to try to bend the bars,

instead just bend the metal under body of the deck that the grey clip is fixed to, youll see what i mean. Its grey and golf ball sized and holds the 2 rods right under the 3rd brake lamp. i used a long wrench and just pried it down a 1/2 an inch

Acura2.3CL

good deal man, did this today, i just pryed the plastic clip with the bars in it out of the hole and put a 1inch thick piece of foam in there. trunk still opens and closes regularly. fixed what was rattling in there!

Smalls

do you really have to remove the third brake light to do this? Or can you access it from the underneath side.

klepto

hrmm sounds interesting, anyone got some pics of their "set up"

Acura2.3CL

you dont have to remove the third brake light, it is just the 2 bars that act as springs for the trunk lid

klepto

well i just spent the last few hours doing this. first i taped everything up, i tried everyhting, tape, stuffing towels inbetween the deck/bars, etc. and it still rattled. Then i took the clip out (broke it actually) and then bent the bars, still rattling. Then i just said fuck it cut the two bars off just to know if it was really that or not. and it STILL rattles. so now im stuck with the rattling and a heavy ass trunk.

oh well, i just had to cut the bars to know for myself time to order new ones

wontonjohnny

oh shietty man. do you mean it stills rattles from the outside or inside? cause this fix only takes out the interior rattle. My still rattles from the outside but i cant hear it when driving so im fine with it.

klepto

outside. the interior I cant hear anything cause my bass is so loud. I want to get ride of the outside rattle it bothers me cause I dont want the cars behind me to hear the crazy rattle

wontonjohnny

oh, guess i shoulda said that it gets rid of the interior rear deck rattle. As for that the only fix is dynamat. but that stuff is hella pricey. On my old car i went to the local hardware store, Revy, and got a couple of rolls of roofing isulator tape, which looks identical to dynamat. it was just thinner. the rolls were 10" by 10' something. i forget what its called but i think its 3 letters and blue packaging. worked with only one layer too. did the whole bottom including the spare tire pocket. left it out and filled it with insulation. the trunk lid is a must, id do the lid first, you may not have to do the whole trunk. it had no rattles at all from the outside or in.

wontonjohnny

http://www.mobilehomepartsstore.com/...tegory_Code=RC

found some same stuff. its called peel and seal.

looks the same its got the aluminum backing and rubberized asphault

klepto

yea, i got a few rolls of peel and seal and did my trunk lid a while ago. I didnt really notice much of a diff though. I did like two layers

98SilverSurfer

Damn why didn't I see this post before? I have the same problem and I always thought it was the speaker grills. I'm gonna try this out with insulation first. Bendin it would be my last resort.

Thanks for the info

97BlackAckCL

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My bass rattles cars behind/next to me

97RedCL

i thought my garage door was gonna fall on me when i first turned my stereo up.....but I too have this annoying interior rattle...thanks for the heads up.