Afternoon All,

 

I have a 04 VRS, 122K on the clock. Over the past 3 months it has developed a noise when driving over bumps or uneven roads, that seems like it coming from the rear of the vehicle. If I had to say what the noise sounded like, the most accurate description I could come up with is a rattling parcel shelf. However, I have removed the parcel shelf and everything in the boot compartment including the box on the spare wheel and although it does SEEM to have got a bit better, the main noise still exists and I am at a loss to find what is causing it and its really beginning to ruin my driving experience. My only other guess could be the boot, but that seems to have all the necessary rubber stops in place to stop any noise it would cause if that was the offending item. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

heat shield maybe?

look underneath the car and move the heatshield see if it rattles

mine starts rattling the day after  I drive in the wet due to the corrosion on the fixings

The heatshield seems solid enough.. when I push it, it starts to bend before it moves so dont think its that

have you checked the entire length of the heatshield including the centre section?

maybe there could be something loose in the boot floor in the spare wheel well

Anything under the rear seats ?

 

DB.

Outer skin on the exhaust back box.

Take a look on ventilation deflectors in spare wheel compartment- facing rear bumper; deflector's rubber gets old and makes "flapping" noise when cover of spare wheel moves up-down (i.e., some air is pumped :-)

Had it with mine Furby; cured stiff flaps with silicone spray once a year.

11 hours ago, indars said:

cured stiff flaps with silicone spray once a year.

 

Had to have a little giggle over that one sorry.

1 hour ago, Alexh4551 said:

 

Had to have a little giggle over that one sorry.

Lucky that my Latvian is much better :-) but hope that guys catched idea.

26 minutes ago, indars said:

Lucky that my Latvian is much better :-) but hope that guys catched idea.

 

It's not that your English is bad because it's very good. But there is a rude joke in your sentence if you are dirty-minded British people liike us

7 hours ago, TMB said:

 

It's not that your English is bad because it's very good. But there is a rude joke in your sentence if you are dirty-minded British people liike us

 

Ahhh....took a look once more on this and get it- damn rude, agree ;-)

Just like when slow Northern girl was asked- what's better > greasing of hairy dumpling or Xmas? Xmas- because it's more often.