Chucksta

Took my car into get the rattling noise behind the dash fixed. The dealer said they put felt tape over the air-con vents to stop it hitting the dash.

It was ok for about 1 hour and the noise started again.

Am I wasting my time trying to get this fixed? Or should I live with it? Hmmmm don't really expect a brand new 911 to be rattling like a korean car.

It's so annoying when u are doing 160 km/h on the freeway.

Chucksta

Jean-Marc

I have a similar problem from the dash and from the roof area. Go to allcardata.com and set-up an account, you can pull out all TSBs and bring them to your dealer. You will see that they will need to basically take the car apart for 2 days but that Porsche knows all about it!
JM

Chucksta

2 days???

are u serious???

blardy hell... why did i buy this piece of crap then?

Jean-Marc

Well, maybe it's less... I certainly don't think that the car is a piece of crap. quite the contrary actually but there is work to be done
JM

boca996

I tried to go to the allcardata.com website and couldn't connect. Is this the correct website you mentioned?

CAndrew

I think he probably meant:
<a href="http://www.alldata.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alldata.com/</a>

Keyvan

Very interesting site, but it looks like you need to be a dealer to sign up for it?

I went to the ALLDATA DIY site but it only covers cars upto 2001, 996 3.4l does not list 996 3.6l

SPR

I had the same annoying problem from vibration mainly from when the stereo was loudly played it resonated the dash strips. I put double sided sticky tape without removing the tape cover on the one side between the strip vent opening on the underside of the strips. Cured the annoyance entirely. I think the fact that it's basically 1/8 inch foam did it. Very happy now. Now I just need the new roap seal for the windshield!

Jean-Marc

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Keyvan:
<strong>Very interesting site, but it looks like you need to be a dealer to sign up for it?

I went to the ALLDATA DIY site but it only covers cars upto 2001, 996 3.4l does not list 996 3.6l</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Try this: <a href="http://www.alldatadiy.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alldatadiy.com/</a>

NMoore

I think that job takes about 4-5 hours to do, so they may wish to have the car overnight. If you were thinking of having anything installed in the dash or console (PSE?) you could probably get a big break on the labor.

Loren

Chucksta,

I sent you the 9 page TSB on this. My advice would be to show it to your dealer and tell him you expect them to fix the noise.

NMoore

There is no question you are entitled to a complete fix under warranty. I had that sort of thing done three times under warranty without any problem on the part of the dealers.

Chucksta

its not a problem getting it fixed at the dealer.. just a pain in the *** bringing the car there

the dealer is very good... no complaints at all.

i just think the factory should get its act together

seggy

Yes, indeed, each time I bring it to the dealer there're couple more scrapes under my bumper.

They basically take it for a ride and find no rattle. It's annoyingly hard to reproduce. So this time I'm asking for the felt that they use, so that if it still rattles, I will try to fix it myself using the felt that they provide.

DaveH

Had exactly the same dash cluster problem - the first felt appliance worked a treat - just make sure the buggers put all the screws back in as they left mine loose the first time - tossers.
Got to the point where I was heartily p.o.'ed at all the vibration in that car - everytime I fixed one, something else started - door airbags, speaker housings, dash etc. Maybe I shouldn't have been driving it around fields.

As we're on the topic of interior frustrations, has anyone else got a color coded console where the ashtray cover latch won't stay closed?