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not true at all...........it's cover under warranty. my shit rattles too i had toyota looked at it 3 times and can't seem to find a way to fix it. i think it's a lemon. and by the way my tl with sunroof don't rattle! i guess it's quality..........
Well, I heard people took their car in to fix the sunroof rattle, and ended up with more rattles.
Cause they had to take off the roof liner (or whatever it's called), and everything that's attached to it. Well, it's not their car, and when they put it back... go figure.
And I'm not saying all cars have sunroof rattles, but there is always a rattle in every car.
gt-r is right but in this case if its brought to dealership and done right then it should go away. i heard of people going to dealership and they have no more noise in their cars. i had a friend working in service when i had my 07 and he fixed all the rattles in my car without making anything worse. but then i got the 09 and he left that job.
I should probably take my car into the dealership then. This rattling happens at any speed I'm driving but while I'm cruising at 60 mph it just doesn't stop.
My sunroof rattle happened during Spring and fall when temp. around 5c to 12c.
Brought back to dealer and they notice the noise, however when they take the roof liner off, they can't hear nothing. I am going back to dealer again when I can reproduce the noise during fall...
I have the same problem and it getting worse. I did do a serch on this problem and found a fourm for TSB-0089. I was going to take my car into the dealership and ask them to do this TSB, but then in that same fourm people said this about how the knocking sound gots worse.
If i do take my car in and the problem gets worse after work has been preformed, will the dealership continue to try to fix the problem? im curresntly around 35,000+ miles and i dont want to take the car in for repairs and then have the knocking sound get worse while im going over 36,000 miles and have the dealership tell me that they cant refix the problem because im over 36,000 miles.
Every cars have their own rattles. If not, just losen up some screws.
It is absolutely not normal. It is called poor workmanship/design. No car today should rattle, and it will only get worse. Loose screws will make it worse. What they need is gaskets between the plastic sections and so on. My 2010 SE Camry has rattling as well have taken it in once already. My trouble is it is bad when cool and not much when warm. Living in Canada this will be a major issue. I have sent an official complaint to Toyota Canada. As for all cars having rattling my 2001 Jetta never had any not one even after 260,000 kms..
Do not stop bugging them about this. It is a real problem and you have justification to have it fixed
worst comes to worst get a friend to help take down the liner and put something to help prevent the rattle. sometimes you need to fix some things. remember one thing. the car is made and tested in cali pretty much and in japan. they say they test it in all types of conditions but i doubt they do. so when u take it north to real cold weather things will happen. if we all file a complaint then they will fix it though.
Last winter I took my 08 LE in for the sun roof TSB. Rattled again in one day. Took it back, again quiet for one day. I now think it is the headliner making the rattling noise. The headliner is removed during the TSB process.
Rattle only happens in cold weather. I'll take it back in when it gets cold again in Georgia.
The cold weather dash rattle was fixed with thicker foam pads on the fittings. Maybe the headliner has similar fittings.
Listen to what has been written. "They have to take down the headliner." You bet.
So, how do they do that?
Well, it's held up there by your pillar posts, by the front overhead panels, and so on.
The bottom line is very simple here:
THEY HAVE TO TAKE YOUR ENTIRE INTERIOR APART in order to get in there. They may even wind up taking out the seats, in order to get in there so they can do something.
NEVER, EVER IN A FREAKING MILLION BILLION YEARS will they get that put back together as well as it was when it came out of the factory. Especially with the time constraints of doing warranty work.
This is the proverbial "do it yourself" job. Are you SURE it's the moonroof? Does it happen when the roof is open? Does it do it when the roof is closed? Might it only be the headliner? Might it be the "grab handles" above the doors? Check ALL of that out. Do what you can to try to mitigate things yourself. See that "trim ring" around the moonroof opening? It's just a soft piece of metal, wrapped in fabric, that you can try to "close more firmly" around the moonroof opening.
Open up the moonroof, and see if there's anywhere at the front end of the opening where you can put some cushioning weatherstripping or whatever. And so on.
But if you let your dealer TOUCH your interior, you are setting yourself up for a nightmare of rattles that you'll have to put up with so long as you own your car. Guaranteed. DO NOT LET THEM TOUCH IT!!!
All I can tell you is that I've learned it the hard way. Learn from my experience.
Listen to what has been written. "They have to take down the headliner." You bet.
So, how do they do that?
Well, it's held up there by your pillar posts, by the front overhead panels, and so on.
The bottom line is very simple here:
THEY HAVE TO TAKE YOUR ENTIRE INTERIOR APART in order to get in there. They may even wind up taking out the seats, in order to get in there so they can do something.
NEVER, EVER IN A FREAKING MILLION BILLION YEARS will they get that put back together as well as it was when it came out of the factory. Especially with the time constraints of doing warranty work.
This is the proverbial "do it yourself" job. Are you SURE it's the moonroof? Does it happen when the roof is open? Does it do it when the roof is closed? Might it only be the headliner? Might it be the "grab handles" above the doors? Check ALL of that out. Do what you can to try to mitigate things yourself. See that "trim ring" around the moonroof opening? It's just a soft piece of metal, wrapped in fabric, that you can try to "close more firmly" around the moonroof opening.
Open up the moonroof, and see if there's anywhere at the front end of the opening where you can put some cushioning weatherstripping or whatever. And so on.
But if you let your dealer TOUCH your interior, you are setting yourself up for a nightmare of rattles that you'll have to put up with so long as you own your car. Guaranteed. DO NOT LET THEM TOUCH IT!!!
All I can tell you is that I've learned it the hard way. Learn from my experience.
Very funny post. Actually most of the techs that work on cars are much better the big fat Bob and Bill in good ole Kentucky(made the car) that have no education and got hired to put round pegs in square holes. Jesus wake up and smell the coffee it was stupid assembly workers that should of been pig farmers that messed this up!
These people that try and fix it are trained and make alot more than those morons that screwed it in the making. Toyota should of kept it being made in japan i guess. All the master mechs where I take my car are very well trained and know what they are doing. Yes they make mistakes but we all do.
Never forget this problem started with the maker in Kentucky. An do you want to take apart a car under warranty? That is crazy. Yes not under warranty do it, and if you have no idea what you are doing?
Oh and sorry you had such misery with a dealer, maybe find a better one.
It all comes down to us being screwed over and we need to stick together and complain in the right places.
Sadly I have no reason to not believe your lack of faith in your dealer, to many like that. An it saddens me. But just think of what you said in how complicated it is? A person with no training doing that will do it better? Ignoring any warranty?
Last edited by judge34411; 07-20-2009 at 05:37 PM.
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