Ever since I've had my 05 HSE the front door panels rattle when listening to songs with lots of bass. Extremely annoying. Dealer tried to fix a year ago, said no way to fix (really they said they didnt find a problem). I finally figured out it was the top speaker grille rattling on both doors. If I pressed it slightly or had someone press the pass speaker grille, it would go away.
I searched here (and elsewhere) and no one had really ever posted this fix so I thought I would put it here for others.
Anyway, today I took off both driver and pass interior front door panels.
My car is a late 05 build -- 03/05. The door panels are all "plastic welded" together -- ie the speaker grilles are plastic-welded/attached to the door panels, the handles, the door pocket, the tweeter up top -- its all plastic welded together.
I found the problem. The top speaker "mounts" were never plastic welded to the door panels. So they were rattling. I took an old crappy soldering iron, got it very hot, and then did the "welding" myself by basically melting the tabs together as the factory should have done.
Looks like this is just something they forgot. Anyone with an 05 HSE with the same problem and Logic 7 system, its worth a shot. Now my nav voice doesnt vibrate the speaker grille and the system sounds WAY better without the door panels rattling.
I would have taken pics but my wife has 'misplaced' our digital camera. But if you read online and figure out how to take the door panels off (I searched and found it), the plastic weld error was pretty obvious. I laid towels all over everything so as not to mess up my door panels.
I searched here (and elsewhere) and no one had really ever posted this fix so I thought I would put it here for others.
Anyway, today I took off both driver and pass interior front door panels.
My car is a late 05 build -- 03/05. The door panels are all "plastic welded" together -- ie the speaker grilles are plastic-welded/attached to the door panels, the handles, the door pocket, the tweeter up top -- its all plastic welded together.
I found the problem. The top speaker "mounts" were never plastic welded to the door panels. So they were rattling. I took an old crappy soldering iron, got it very hot, and then did the "welding" myself by basically melting the tabs together as the factory should have done.
Looks like this is just something they forgot. Anyone with an 05 HSE with the same problem and Logic 7 system, its worth a shot. Now my nav voice doesnt vibrate the speaker grille and the system sounds WAY better without the door panels rattling.
I would have taken pics but my wife has 'misplaced' our digital camera. But if you read online and figure out how to take the door panels off (I searched and found it), the plastic weld error was pretty obvious. I laid towels all over everything so as not to mess up my door panels.