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Anyone Else Hear This?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by mark_hamrick, Sep 18, 2004.

  1. mark_hamrick

    mark_hamrick New Member

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    Lately I have been hearing an annoying rattle which seems to come from the passenger area. I cannot seem to find the source. It is not coming from the storage areas, and seems to disappear when I have a passenger. Anyone else have this irritating noise? :roll:
     
  2. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    I used to have the same problem. But now I don't let my wife ride with me anymore.

    Ouch. Oh. Darn good thing she never comes to this board. :mrgreen:
     
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    LOL I knew someone would chime in with that comment Tony!
     
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    I get that when the sun visor is detached from its "anchor" and vibrating against it.

    Rick
     
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    paprius4030 My first Prius

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    Tony you made me laugh!! That was a good one!
     
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    Mark... I heard some really bad noise coming from the back when I took the cats to the vet and left them... the drive after that was great... same noise when I picked them up and thru the ride home... have not heard it again.....
     
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    Gee Bob, I noticed the same when I moved from Atlanta with three cats. I figured it was their joints so I gave them some glucosamine and presto! No more noise! This noise, however, may have been something in the door storage compartment...will report back...
     
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    My experience with rattles is that they always go away after I empty all the compartments and cubbys.
     
  9. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    I had a rattle after about a week. Boy, was I upset! It turned out to be the garage-door opener which I had put in the cup-holder. The solution was to close the cover of the cup-holder. Doesn't go all the way closed, and then it holds the opener steady and no more rattle.

    I need to bring the opener into the house with me because I live in an apartment and the garage is separate. So I use the opener to open it on my way out to the car, and close it again when I return to the apartment. So an aftermarket Homelink would do me no good.

    In the old Civic I clipped the opener to the sun visor, but after a while it began to wear a hole in the plastic covering of the visor. So now it's the cup-holder.
     
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    Daniel... I put my cel-phone in the cup holder... it was on vibrate and rang... there is the winning racket....

    Mark, when we moved here I had an old cat (about 20) Sherry said I couldn't put him down... she took him to the vet for a check up... the vet told her he'd travel well if he could see out... after I quit laughing I caged in the club cab of my Dakota and we started from Reno to Denver...two trucks towing trailers... a few tense minutes as Sherry took the truck off the road when the cat wanted to drive, but in a couple of miles he had settled in and was a happy camper for the trip... he traveled so well we took him on a quick trip to Las Vegas and to Wyoming for our daughters wedding... that one he had to stay in the truck in the cold of a December wedding... I don't think he ever forgave me for that one..