Ever since my car was broken into, and I lost my radio, I have been listening to the wonderful rattles within my car. Now, for this car being an 86, its rattling like a death trap. Comparitavely, my 89 Camaro is 99% rattle free.

I have begun a neverending quest to rid my car of rattles. This is how I got rid of my rattling door locks for less than $3.

Some of the pictures were pretty dark, I brightened them up a little to show some detail.


First, you need some crazy glue, black felt (Walmart $0.20) and your door locks.
<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor01.jpg">


In the next two pics, notice how much play was in my door locks themselves.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor02.jpg">

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor03.jpg">


Here is a picture of the worn felt on my door lock.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor04.jpg">


Now that you have taken off the door locks, you need to clean the old felt off. I used some scissors to scrape the old junk off.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor05.jpg">


Next, cut yourself some felt thats the size that you need.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor06.jpg">


Then, crazy glue that sucker on.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor07.jpg">


Here is a little before and after shot.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor08.jpg">


Do that to both sides, and you should be just about finished. One thing that I noticed was that one single layer wasn't enough, so I repeated the steps and added another layer of felt. This make the door lock much tighter. Now there is no play at all in it. Perfect.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor09.jpg">


Replace your door components and marvel at how you eliminated another rattle.

<img src="http://www.zbalan.com/sonarun/TransAm/rattledoor/rattledoor10.jpg">


This took me about 30 mintutes to complete from start to finish. Easy and cheap job to stop those rattles!

 

Cool.

Got any more ideas for getting rid of rattles?

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...door+%2Brattle

JamesC made this FAQ. Very detailed.

 

Thanks man. That's a sweet thread.

 

Awesome! We gotta do that to my car now...
Heck, I'm gluing everything down....

 

I have folded business cards between panels all over the car.
I swear there wasn't one squeak or rattle till I put the jamex springs in.

 

time for SFC's