
Originally Posted by
spraycanmansam
Sounds like fun

After chasing some elusive vibrations and moving the muffler down, I discovered what I thought was the exhaust hitting the bumper was actually coming from some little vents in the spare wheel well. If you look in the spare wheel well back towards the rear of the car there's two vents with little flaps on them. The flaps were.. flapping

Sounded like a vibration when your driving. I've removed the flaps and all is well (easy enough to put back in if I have to). Does anyone know what purpose these serve?
Mine is doing exactly the same thing. Did you have to take bumper off to get to the vents?
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