Hit pothole, now noise on acceleration
Hit pothole, now noise on acceleration
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willmagrath

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1,397 posts

177 months

Wednesday 2nd October 2019
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My girlfriend has a 208 1.2 and hit a bad pothole today. Now it has a weird rattle/vibration under medium/hard acceleration. It steers fine, no knocks or clonks over bumps.

Any ideas??

Thanks.

Gad-Westy

16,634 posts

244 months

Wednesday 2nd October 2019
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Could be the cat internals breaking up. Tap it with something and see if it rattles. Might be worth checking the rest of the exhaust for cracks etc too.

Pica-Pica

16,685 posts

115 months

Thursday 3rd October 2019
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Loose heat/undershield? It may be that a heat shield that was already rusting at a fixing point has broken through and is now rattling. Time for a crawl underneath!

E-bmw

13,576 posts

183 months

Thursday 3rd October 2019
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Either of the above is quite possible, my money would be on a heat shield, nice easy fix if it is, just remove screw/nut affected & put a big washer behind it, job done.