I've got an frequent but intermittent rattle from somewhere at the back of my Yeti. Quite low frequency but not a drumming sound, if that makes sense. I've had everything out of the boot and there isn't anything loose, it's not the seat belt buckles rattling on the wheel arch (but it's that sort of sound), the three rear seats are firmly in place as is the rear shelf. Of course you can only hear it when driving. This morning I found the part in the photo in the drive by the back of the car. I can't see where it's come from (or if it is indeed even a  Yeti bit and not just something that's found its way onto my drive) but if anyone recognises it and where it has come from I'd be pleased to hear because it might be connected. As it seems very clean I assume it would be something internal.

 

Any thoughts please?

 

(And to save anyone the trouble - you know who you are - it's the bit that isn't the top of a pencil).

I could not see anything in the photo that didnt look like the eraser at the top of the pencil.

 

I even put on my close reading glasses.

 

And then I scrolled down 🙁

 

It looks like rubber and some sort of cushion to prevent something banging when closed, not big enough to cause the noise but its absence may create metal to metal contact elsewhere, I would look carefully at where the rear seats contact their fixings, the parcel shelf etc.

Don't know what your mystery object is,  but your mystery noise its probably the tailgate stops in need of adjustment.

There are rubber bump stops on the tailgate (3 off) and doors but at the moment I can't match the exact shape to your one.

 

What model year is your Yeti?

 

No idea but i am 100% with you in tracking it down i can't handle any rattles - my Yeti is quiet but my wifes brand new 2008 Peugeot has a rattle from the rear seats and a leaking shock but nor able to fix it currently as garages are closed  

1 hour ago, StickyMicky said:

There are rubber bump stops on the tailgate (3 off) and doors but at the moment I can't match the exact shape to your one.

 

What model year is your Yeti?

 

 

It's a pre-facelift registered May 2013

1 hour ago, StickyMicky said:

There are rubber bump stops on the tailgate (3 off)

 

I must have lost one, can only find 2 😮
Cannot think where the 3rd would be.

Just had another look at your mystery object....  could it be the rubber/plastic pip that the rear parcel shelf cords hang on?  Its not quite the same as mine,  but mine's a facelift and I know the tailgates are slightly different,  so that part might be, too.  If you've got both of yours,  but they match the odd one,  it could be a spare one that's been rolling round in the boot since the car was new,  and your recent investigations have flushed it out of its hiding place.  Just a thought....

4 hours ago, Urrell said:

 

I must have lost one, can only find 2 😮
Cannot think where the 3rd would be.

 

Item 12 is a door stop, not 23 as originally posted.  They do not match the OP's picture.

Thanks to @Urrell for the correction.

 

https://skoda.7zap.com/en/cz/yeti/yet/2014-779/8/827-827010/#12

Edited 19 April, 20206 yr by StickyMicky
Fixing incorrect information

1 hour ago, Zarniwoop said:

Just had another look at your mystery object....  could it be the rubber/plastic pip that the rear parcel shelf cords hang on?  Its not quite the same as mine,  but mine's a facelift and I know the tailgates are slightly different,  so that part might be, too.  If you've got both of yours,  but they match the odd one,  it could be a spare one that's been rolling round in the boot since the car was new,  and your recent investigations have flushed it out of its hiding place.  Just a thought....

 

Yep, I'm with you on this one

3 hours ago, StickyMicky said:

 

Item 23.  https://skoda.7zap.com/en/cz/yeti/yet/2014-779/8/827-827010/#23

 

Item 23 is door panel retaining clips.
Only 2 bump stops are parts 12 to 16 each side.

2 minutes ago, Urrell said:

Item 23 is door panel retaining clips.
Only 2 bump stops are parts 12 to 16 each side.

 

Agreed.  I read the description (bung) and got it wrong.  I'll fix the original post, and thanks.

 

18 hours ago, J.R. said:

I could not see anything in the photo that didnt look like the eraser at the top of the pencil.

 

I even put on my close reading glasses.

 

And then I scrolled down 🙁

 

 

Thats your age J.R. 🙃

It doesn't look to be the pin on which the parcel shelf hangs...

 

 

However, whilst I appreciate it isn't a Yeti, the parcel shelf made a very similar noise on my Superb, where it clips in just behind the seats. A lug on the parcel shelf clips in (friction fit) to the trim on either side of the boot. This fit became very creaky / rattly whilst driving. A small does of GT85 lubricating spay soon cured it.

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. Can't find any bits missing from their rightful place but it's helped narow down possible causes. Hadn't thought of the tail gate stops needing adjustment (I seem to recall having to do something with these not long after first buying the car) but slight wear on the parcel shelf fixings is an interstimg thought so that can come out for a couple of days which should either prove or eliminate it. If it doesn't solve the problem I'll move onto the tailgate stops.

 

Any further ideas welcome and if I can track it down I'll post here as it might help others in the future. (Trying to trace this problem I wanted to roll the seats forward, two were fine the third wouldn't budge and then I remembered a post for a few years back that if the seats are fully back you can't move them. Sure enough the "stuck" seat was just slightly forward. Problem solved. This forum can be invaluable for these sort of tips). 

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Edited 20 April, 20206 yr by J.R.

For the second time a totally childish contribution but it has at least reminded me of the function the web-site provides to block specific members. Congratulations, you are only the second person I've blocked in more than seven years.

As you dont share my sense of humour in these troubled times and have taken it so badly I have deleted the posting in respect of your sensibiities.

 

No need for the blocking or sarcasm, I hope that you will reconsider, if not then stay safe and keep smiling.

In case it helps anyone else I think I may have found the cause of my rattle.

 

Those with the spare wheel option will know under the false floor are stuck four polystyrene triangles which rest on the storage trays. As part of my quest I'd removed the spare wheel and the removable box but the other two are fixed in so I'd simply emptied them of their contents and put the contents back when I still had the "rattle". Following some of the above advice I decided to take fully rotate the seats and in the process decided to take out the fixed boxes just in case something had got underneath (although I couldn't see how). When I got the boxes out I realised the front two triangles nearest the back seats had at some time dropped off and fallen in the small compartment moulded into the front to each fixed box. They could have been there for ages but I've re-stuck them (there's a hole in the floor and locating bulge on the polystyrene to make sure the go back as Skoda intended, although oddly they don't line up very well with the top of the boxes, so I don't know what's going on there)  and since then - no rattle. Whether these triangles were rattling in the foam boxes (although a bit odd they should both fall off at the same time) or whether  in the absence of one or the other the false floor was just touching somewhere I have no idea. But if you have a Yeti with a spare wheel and false floor and get a hard to identify rattle its something quick and easy to check. (and if the triangles drop off, don't just throw them out!).