I GOT A NASTY RATTLE COMMING FROM THE HATCH ON MY 91GS. ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO STOP IT??? ANYONE KNOW HOW TO STOP DASH SQUEKS AS WELL
ive read here that wraping electrical tape around the latch helps stop the squeaks/rattles. HTH
If you’re talking about that damn annoying squeaking coming from the hatch, it’s the four rubber stops on the hatch (two fixed, two adjustable). I tried all kinds of tip crap like spraying them with silicon lube, putting little patches of the loop side of velcro on the contact parts of the stops. Still squeaking like ass. What did finally help was a front strut bar. Go fig! Helped not solved. Find a nice bumpy stretch of residental road. Drive up and down, each time letting the adjustable stops out a little bit. Eventually the squeak will almost dissappear. Wondering if a rear strut bar will help?
Hey DanL aren’t the streets of Chicago brutal to cars!? Shitty roads.
I’ve had the same problem. I took my car to get the suspension checked, the guy at Midas showed me the lower control arm bushings all torn up. I got a suggestion from RCNAcura about greasing those bushings as a temporary fix (it helped), but problem was still there. Squeeking noises can come from multiple places at the same time. It drove me crazy thinking about that noise everytime I heard it, I’d think about it (sometimes obsessively) because it’s embarassing to hear with friends onboard. I also checked those little rubber things, unscrewed them off, screwed them back on…One last try - wrap some tape around the hook on the hatch back (the hook that latches to the car). It WORKED! It’s amazing how quiet my car is now…no more squeeks. A simple (and cheap) solution to a nerve wracking problem. HTH
-Rick
A simple white 2DR LS in Chicago:)
Turn your music up REAL loud and the squeaky sounds seem to just… dissapear!
JOKES!
Haha… what I did was wrap that electrical tape on the hinge, and the thing has never squeaked ever again!
With cars as old as ours the latch on the hatch wears down some at the point where it contacts with the locking mechanism in the trunk. The electrical tape idea kind of makes up for this wear, but the tape will also wear fast. A better solution is to just unscrew the latch from the hatch door and flip it 180 degress, so that the trunck closing is making contact with a new fresh part of the hood latch.