halbe01
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Hi all,
I thought this problem worth throwing out there as its driving me nuts!
On a 2005 4200 CC I have a rattle which is rather spoiling an otherwise lovely car. It comes from outside, somewhere under the car. It's a tinny metallic fast clanking sound which happens at about 1400 revs. Above that it seems to pretty much disappear, though not completely. Oddly its pretty unpredictable - sometimes it's loud and sometimes it's quieter, and sometimes (rarely) it not there at all. Once the car gets properly hot its pretty much gone though. As many of my journeys are short I spend a lot of time listening to the rattle. It's certainly easily loud enough to be heard by passing pedestrians who might otherwise have been thinking 'nice car'... so a little embarrassing in town centres.
The car has been in to the local shop (Autofficina) a couple of times and they've spent some time investigating and trying fixes, including designing and fitting a bracket to the exhaust heat shield,that being a likely culprit. However it's not fixed the problem.
Has anyone else had annoying rattles which might be similar? Any ideas appreciated as if I can't get this resolved I'll probably be looking to get rid of the car (which won't be cheap as I'd then need another car and a GS would be the obvious purchase!)
Cheers,
Ben.
I thought this problem worth throwing out there as its driving me nuts!
On a 2005 4200 CC I have a rattle which is rather spoiling an otherwise lovely car. It comes from outside, somewhere under the car. It's a tinny metallic fast clanking sound which happens at about 1400 revs. Above that it seems to pretty much disappear, though not completely. Oddly its pretty unpredictable - sometimes it's loud and sometimes it's quieter, and sometimes (rarely) it not there at all. Once the car gets properly hot its pretty much gone though. As many of my journeys are short I spend a lot of time listening to the rattle. It's certainly easily loud enough to be heard by passing pedestrians who might otherwise have been thinking 'nice car'... so a little embarrassing in town centres.
The car has been in to the local shop (Autofficina) a couple of times and they've spent some time investigating and trying fixes, including designing and fitting a bracket to the exhaust heat shield,that being a likely culprit. However it's not fixed the problem.
Has anyone else had annoying rattles which might be similar? Any ideas appreciated as if I can't get this resolved I'll probably be looking to get rid of the car (which won't be cheap as I'd then need another car and a GS would be the obvious purchase!)
Cheers,
Ben.