Bye bye arm rest rattles!

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Jan 4, 2002 | 03:09 PM

daverman

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Bye bye arm rest rattles!

The arm rest on my 02 TL-S rattled every time I drove over moderately bumpy roads. The kind mechanics at Superior Acura fixed the problem for me:

There was a loose piece of plastic under the cupholder. If you pop off the cupholder's bottom, you'll find a little "gate" on the rear end of the cavity. There's a little plastic tab that fits in that gate and mine came off and rattled around.
The top piece of the arm rest (the leather piece) was rattling against the middle piece (the shallow tray) because there wasn't enough compression from the rubber bumpers when the lid is closed. A couple of layers of foam tape and it's good as gold.