MarkPinTx said:
The consensus on rattles seems to be that the window rolls up "too tight." This causes something in the door to deflect and rattle.
The solution is to roll the window up and then back it down just a tad and the rattling stops. Others seem to have solved this problem by lubricating the seal and/or by tightening things in the door panel.
Id try the back it off approach first.
Good luck.
Welcome, Mark! Yes, that has seemed to be one of the things, but only one. It seems there are numerous possible sources/locations for the rattles, but yes indeed, this has been one of the main ones.
In fact, I wondered if maybe a reason I haven't had any rattles is that I often routinely have the window open just a crack (I mean, that's just how I like to have it a lot of the time). That means I'm constantly going through this maneuver that you mention, just as a matter of routine, and I wonder if that prevents/cures any possible rattles coming from there.
A couple of other things about the rattles:
(1) It seems there's a slight trend toward less and less of the
newer TSX's having rattles. It's nowhere near to a clear or sure thing, but it does seem that posts and poll results from new people are showing less and less of a rattle problem.
Which would suggest that Honda/Acura has been ironing out the problem as they go along.
And that the problem will be greatly decreased for the '05 cars.
I almost said "nonexistent," but that would be impossible because I don't think there's
any model that's totally free of a rattle problem.
(2) Besides the apparent trend that the newer TSX's are getting better, I still wonder if to some extent it has also been a "batch by batch" thing, with some batches being OK and others not.
Particularly, the absence of rattles in my car despite it being one of the earlier TSX's (#2754), together with the apparent fact that the rattle problem has been reported in few if any of the early TSX's of my specific configuration -- CB/Ebony 5AT w Nav -- which, if true, could ONLY (I think) be explained by the "batch" theory.
So, in addition to all else, let me wonder out loud again:
Has ANYBODY with one of the earlier cars of this config (CB/Ebony 5AT Nav, VIN# about 5000 or lower) had a rattle problem?
Or with
any VIN#?