Do you have rattles in the car?

[Brendan_A]

Mine has the dripping rear washer jet too! Booked in next week for the fix. Good quality Germany built cars hey? It's amazing how when you drive the demo cars and I drove 3 different ones how they have no rattles and are super quite.
What really bugs me is when you go in to collect the car after having the rattles fixed and they assure me they are fixed and I drive off down the road and the same rattle is there! I have little faith in the service department.

[McDub]

haha, ktrianta i think half of your problem is that once you start to notice little rattles and squeaks, you then start paying more attention to them and any unusual sound you hear you assume is a new rattle. if you look for rattles you will find them.
my MKIV has lots of rattles/noises, just about the entire dash, the head rest guide runners in the passenger seat, the entire rear chasis of the car, the rubber bump stop that the rear seat rests on and a few more occasional ones.
but then there are also ones which actually end up being thigns like your bag you put in the car, loose items in the glove box.
i spent the weekend stuffing a rag under the dash trying to stop a persistant rattle, unfortuately i broke a vent thing to get there (otherwise i would have had to remove the entire dash), so i've created a new rattle.
but when you stop one rattle, you'll then find a new one that irritates you.

i'm slowly coming to terms with the rattles in my car, i say EMBRACE THE RATTLES (to some extent )
i'm actually thinking about getting an exhaust to hide some of the less annoying rattles, yet knowing my luck it's make a drone that will create some nice new resonating vibrations...
oh and i'm also thinking of spending $500 on a unibrace (rear triangulated strut brace) to stop the rear of my car groaning... that's an expensive way to quieten a car!

btw i'm talking about an MKIV here. glad i came across this thread though because we have a ****load of Krytox grease at work, and i didn't think about using it on the squeaky rubber bits.
btw, Krytox is just a high temperature high quality grease, you could probably just use cheaper greases, though don't quote me.
but having it readily available, i know what i'll be testing out!

[ConR]

haha, ktrianta i think half of your problem is that once you start to notice little rattles and squeaks, you then start paying more attention to them and any unusual sound you hear you assume is a new rattle. if you look for rattles you will find them.

LOL, I do agree with you. It's probably just because of my expectations of this car, coming from something that was a piece of junk. This is the most I've ever spent on a car. I saved up for quite some time to buy it. Hence why these noises are so annoying to me, almost disappointing. I never thought it would rattle like this from so many places. Ah well, that's life I guess.

For anyone that's interested, I'm thinking of starting a support group. I'll start.....Hi, my name is K, and I have a rattly VW....there, I said it. I feel alot better now.

[Brian]

Interesting to note, I owned a 2000 VX Commodore SS sedan for 9 years and NEVER had one single rattle / squeak / buzz out of it in all that time. Since Ive had the Golf I have this annoying "Buzzzzz" coming from somewhere in or behind the tacho which drives me mad. Goes to show, the quality is not always in the European cars. (Well, not in my cases anyway)

Brian

[ConR]

Ya, I know, everyone is sick of this thread for sure I imagine. But I am not sure what to do next in this situation. Here's a breakdown:


Scenario: driving with the technician to try and pinpoint the cause of my rattles (this was after they had the car for a day, and had made some "adjustments"...I went for another drive with them, as they had thought they had sorted it out...but didn't)

Me: I don't know, it sounds the exact same to me
Technician: Yeah
Me: You're telling me that you can't hear those obvious rattles?
Technician: Yeah, I can hear them...I just don't think there is anything that we can do about them. It's just the way the car has been designed.

Am I in the right to be pissed off beyond belief at that comment? Is this car supposed to rattle?

What do I do next? Do I bother wasting my time contacting the service manager to let him know his staff is lazy as hell? Or just to another dealer and never bother with these guys again? I won't mention names here yet....I'm not that kind of person to attempt to ruin the reputation of a dealer, but this is just plain BS.

[Brendan_A]

I've got one of them rattles that is deep in the dash behind the head unit. Dealer has tried to fix it but with no susses. They have come to a dead end with it. The next thing they are going to do is take the regional after sales manager(who is part of VAG) for a drive and see if he can pin point the noise and fix. He may have heard it before in other MK6's. I just have to wait a few weeks for him to come up as he only visits the dealer once a month. I also rang VAG and they opened up a case file for the issues with my new car and said to see what the regional after sales manager has to say and they will talk to there technical support.

I'm sick of rattles in my 4wk old car! I would try and get your dealer to do the same as mine has and if no luck there ring VAG.

[oshuyi]

i guess u have to expect this, since VW is like suzuki when compare to honda cars. obviously the quality won't be as good compare to a bmw or merc but u are paying a fraction of the price

[Brendan_A]

i guess u have to expect this, since VW is like suzuki when compare to honda cars. obviously the quality won't be as good compare to a bmw or merc but u are paying a fraction of the price

Why should I have to put up with rattles in a brand new car from the day I drove it off the show room floor? I have driven numerous demo's and loan MK6 golfs and none of them rattle like mine.

[AdamD]

I've got one of them rattles that is deep in the dash behind the head unit.

My GTI has a rattle that appears to be coming from in or behind the head unit as well. It's noisy over even moderate bumps; I've been trying to pinpoint the location by applying pressure to various parts of the fascia, with no luck. Let us know your outcome after you've had the car looked at by the VAG manager; if your rattle is the same, I'd be keen to know the fix.

[AdamD]

i guess u have to expect this, since VW is like suzuki when compare to honda cars.

This notion of a rattle-free make of car is a fallacy. I've driven cheap and expensive cars, and owned three new Hondas, and they have all rattled to a greater or lesser extent. Sure, sometimes you're lucky, and some cars are clearly engineered better than others, but no amount of good engineering can eliminate all possible rattles.