Back Seat Noise

[ZR1Gerhardt]

When driving alone, i.e. no one sitting in the middle row, it sounds like metal on metal when going over a bump or uneven surface.

Anyone run across this issue? Thoughts?

 

[mbw]

Do you have car seats? I found that the buckle over the seat to the attachment point behind the seat was jingly... put some damper material there.

I also had to add little strips of adhesive felt on the left/right cargo area cubbies because they were a bit loose. Guess I have used them way more than you should.

 

[PaulLR3]

My wife's LR4 does this...something metal on metal under the middle seat. If we collapse the seat forward and flat, then open it back up and slam it, the sound stops...for a while.

 

[Olla]

The screw and bolts holding the seats to the chassis may have loosened - hence the seat creates a rattle. You may notice there's no rattle when there are passengers on the seats. Drove me crazy in my LR4 for over 6 months. You need to tightened them up and you should be good.

 

[Kenneth Kahan]

I found the odd problem. On one of the bolts holding the seat down, when tight made the noise. If I loosened the bolt then the noise went away. So I isolated which bolt by loosening or removing one at a time until I knew the culprit. Permanent solution was to add a thick washer under the head of the bolt, not under the seat flange. Mine has been fine for the last 2 years after that fix. It has to do with the shape of the recess, the bolt head and other yet to be explained 4th dimension phenomenon.