Annoying Rattle

[davewill]

For the last few weeks, i have had a rattle coming from somewhere around the rear passenger near side seat area. It seems to be where the near side rear seat, and the middle seat seatbelts are, and at first i thought that they were rattling against each other, but pushing them down between the seats together, or just pushing one down and leaving one up, has not made any difference.

 

I have pushed both seats forward to enable me to feel under both seats for anything loose, but nothing.

 

It doesn't even make any difference if someone is sitting in either of the seats or not, the rattle still occurs..

 

Anyone experienced similar, or anyone got any ideas on the subject??

 

Its a 2010 facelift model

 

Cheers

[twoc]

What spec is your's?

[davewill]

Its the 2010 Titanium 140tdi Powershift Model

 

I established today that if i fold all the rear seats flat, to make a huge carry area, the rattle goes away??

 

Therefore the rattle only occurs when the rear seats are upright and ready to carry passengers

 

Any ideas??

[twoc]

i had the same thing but managed to pinpoint it to the overhead console, but it does seem yours is with the seat

[gregers]

i have a rattle from 1 of my seat belt holders,

[davewill]

Cant quite believe this

 

I had to fold all the seats down to get a large box in, and left them folded down after i had delivered the box. There was no rattle when the seats were folded down.

 

Put them back up into the normal 3 rear seat position to take the kids to school, and hey presto the rattle was not there.

 

It has now been 3 days since i put the seats back up, and have not heard the rattle once

 

I wonder if there was something stuck in or under the seat that was causing it??

 

Anyway if it comes back i will just have to fold all the seats down again for a day!

[gregers]

still think its the belt retainer,on mine it vibrates.

[davewill]

The rattle is back and sounds louder now than before :angry2:

 

I think i will take it in to m local Fraud dealer and let them guess the problem (although i am mindful that gregers diagnosis of the belt retainer could be correct)

[davewill]

Its now been confirmed that the rattle is coming from the near side rear seat Seatbelt "stork thing", i.e the holder that the seatbelt buckle clips into. You can actually grab the "stork" that comes out of the seat and by giving it a "wiggle" the rattle noise is there. Obviously i am not sure if the rattle is inside the bcukle, or that the "stork" is loose where it is connected to the seat??

 

To get at this it looks like you have to remove the nearside rear seat, and then remove the plastic cover that hides the bottom of the "stork"

 

I can see that rear seat is located on slider rails, and that these are held down by tork screws

 

Anything to be aware of when removing the rear seats, or is it just a case of unscrewing the tork screws and lifting it out, and then trying to remove the plastic around the seatbelt "stork"??

[gregers]

told you :)

glad you found the problem.

[davewill]

And have you fixed the problem Gregers?

 

If so, how??

[gregers]

nope :rolleyes: im aware of it but just turn the radio up :D