Drivers door glass rattle f10
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I've got a rattle from my driver's door glass. Can hear it when setting off or slow moving traffic. It's not terrible, I could live with it but why should I?
I noticed if I shut the drivers door with the window down fully the glass moves around a lot more than the other 3 windows. You can hear the difference.
What's likely to be causing this? The cars done 56k, and is a 5 series F10. It might just be wear and tear.
I noticed if I shut the drivers door with the window down fully the glass moves around a lot more than the other 3 windows. You can hear the difference.
What's likely to be causing this? The cars done 56k, and is a 5 series F10. It might just be wear and tear.
Had this on my e46, it's not a design feature, it's a fault. Sounds as if a bolt has come loose on one of the window guides and whilst it won't fall out / break, the gap caused, will generate rattle with the vibrations.
On mine, I had to take the door card and backing foam off, then check the window guide runners. If there's a loose bolt, it'll be obvious. In my case, the bolt wasn't where it should be and was actually rolling around the bottom. Once retrieved, tightened, all was fine. My only mistake was to just tighten it up. A few months later, the rattle returned, the bolt had worked itself loose again, so 2nd time around, just remembered to use thread lock, been fine up until I sold it a few months back
This was the guide i used
http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=7713...
yours will obviously be different, but it gives you an indication of the window guides and what they're meant to be doing
On mine, I had to take the door card and backing foam off, then check the window guide runners. If there's a loose bolt, it'll be obvious. In my case, the bolt wasn't where it should be and was actually rolling around the bottom. Once retrieved, tightened, all was fine. My only mistake was to just tighten it up. A few months later, the rattle returned, the bolt had worked itself loose again, so 2nd time around, just remembered to use thread lock, been fine up until I sold it a few months back
This was the guide i used
http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=7713...
yours will obviously be different, but it gives you an indication of the window guides and what they're meant to be doing
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