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Swinging plastic flap type noise

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Swinging plastic flap type noise

Post by mikem » Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:58 am

Don't laugh,

I have a noise coming from (I think) the passenger side dash area. Sounds like a flap of some kind swinging back and forth, only sometimes when I go over a bump. I'm 99.9% sure it isn't steering/suspension related.

Anyone else experienced this or got any ideas, have searched google high and low but can't find anything similar.

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Re: Swinging plastic flap type noise

Post by mikem » Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:04 pm

All sorted.

It was the passenger footwell airducts. There's a hook/clip on it that attaches to a metal rail behind the glovebox, it had slipped off and the duct was bouncing up and down.

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Swinging plastic flap type noise

Post by ITBarbie » Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:16 pm

That's so annoying when you hear something like that. Well done though for finding it :-)
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Re: Swinging plastic flap type noise

Post by Bargain Bucket » Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:43 pm

Plastic flaps eh Mike? Are you secretly Katie Price?
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Re: Swinging plastic flap type noise

Post by mikem » Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:13 pm

[quote=""Bargain Bucket""]Plastic flaps eh Mike? Are you secretly Katie Price?[/quote]

If I was Katie Price, I would never get out of bed in the morning !! :P

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