I have a pretty loud rattle coming from the right side of the engine compartment. It only happens at a certain RPM and has a hard plastic sound to it rather than a metallic sound from it. I think that something is loose rather than a clutch plate problem as discussed in previous threads.

I thought this would be a good discussion topic.

Where have your rattles come from and what did you do to stop them?

 

I have a creaking in my convertible top right above the driver's head. Theres also a rattle coming from the dash. I know its from the dash cause when i tap the dash with my hand, i can duplicate the sound. Other than that, i sometimes get a "springy" noise coming from the passenger side when i take off kinda fast in 1st gear. My car is still under warranty so thats how i'm gonna try to go about fixing them.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by StinkyTofu
I have a creaking in my convertible top right above the driver's head.

 

I've got a rear axle noise which I believe there's a TSB for, but it's only noticeable when starting from a stop.

I used to have a horrible rattle that I swore was in the passenger side dash, but turned out to be the hood, which I re-aligned, so no more rattle.

I also used to have really bad wind noise above 45mph, but I adjusted the top and fixed that.

Other than that, I've only got the usual annoying noises from the soft top, but I have yet to own a convertible that the soft top didn't make noise on, so no surprise there.

 

i have a little rattle inside of the passenger's door. any ideal how to take the door panel off? Yea, top has a greak sound too.

 

Top rattle by your head can be fixed by either having Honda replace the latches with the hardtop design (it's a TSB) which are beefier and hold more soundly, or lubricating properly (method is in the Helm manual).