Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Squeak Monsters - The Battle!

Have not had the time to take the beast in at the dealers to get de-squeaked yet. So have been keeping a keen eye/ear out for the squeaks. Well, to put it simply here is the story so far:
  1. The noise only begins about 10mins into a drive, not at the start.
  2. Occurs only on bad and uneven roads. (In Pune that being almost everywhere!
  3. The other day had a few bags of shopping at the back and the squeaks never reared their ugly head. So again could be the boot space/floor rather than the door.
  4. Everything seems in its place. All the panel screws seem tight. There is no vertical play in the tail gate. It all seems to be noise free when one shakes things around manually.
  5. The intensity of the noise is not consistent. Some times it is more than others.
  6. All the plastic sticker sheets that covered the carpets have now been removed completely.
  7. The spare wheel yet to be checked for loose bolts.
So, all in all the squeaks remain but have reduced in intensity a bit. Will give it another week before taking it to the doctors, unless of course the wild band comes back and then it will have to be taken in ASAP.

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