Shaking like a French soldier!

[Davey_182]

Hi guys,

My 182 is now 7 months old (no mechanical probs...touch wood, goes like stink) and has started to rattle in lots of different places in the dash and on the passenger door
Now this dosen't happen all the time but when it does i feel like driving it into a ditch and chucking the keys in the nearest hedge (torching it is optional, depending on whether its a monday or a friday).
Is it worth trying to fix this myself or should i stick it in the nearest dealership and make it their problem?

Cheers
Davey

 

[Cam]

As many people will say "Welcome to Renault ownership" Think everyones in the same boat mate.

 

[mij29]

I just play my music loud so i can't her them.

 

[Laura]

agreed, turn the music up...

 

[MattT]

Alot of the rattles can be fixed if you can find out exactly which bit is rattling. But as above really - welcome to Renault ownership.
Just be thankful your 182 doesn't have a sunroof tho!

 

[Laura]

Alot of the rattles can be fixed if you can find out exactly which bit is rattling. But as above really - welcome to Renault ownership.
Just be thankful your 182 doesn't have a sunroof tho!

oh my good lord dont even get me started on mine

 

[Zmaster2k]

it gets better with age............yeah right hahahahahahahaha..... welcome to renault!

 

[E11OOT]

HAHA...yeah the dashboard and the passenger door is just the start!

It's part of your cars character.....

 

[Zmaster2k]

they are simply quirks

 

[Zmaster2k]

Extra's you didnt pay for to remind you that your driving somthing that is french!

have you found yourself getting some unusual cravings for brie yet?????

we all get that but not many have the balls to talk about it!

Since driving a french car I like cheese!

 

[Munson]

Mine hardly ever makes any rattles at all. Then again I don't really listen for them as I realise I'm not driving an Audi so I dont even think about it

20 months and 27k miles

 

[domtheone]

Mine hardly ever makes any rattles at all. Then again I don't really listen for them as I realise I'm not driving an Audi so I dont even think about it

20 months and 27k miles

Well since you spend 90% of the time at 6500rpm+ it's no wonder you never hear them ffs .

The front of my dash (round the air vents below the front window) and numerous (not yet fully tracked down) places in the passenger footwell area are the main annoying areas for me

 

[Munson]

Well since you spend 90% of the time at 6500rpm+ it's no wonder you never hear them ffs .

Harsh but fair

 

[wozzaa]

I must have been a lucky one when i had mine.

3 years ownership and not 1 rattle.

 

[domtheone]

I must have been a lucky one when i had mine.

3 years ownership and not 1 rattle.

This is the CS forum not Bentley

 

[Munson]

I reckon it's the full fat cars and their 400 extra cabling plugs doing all the rattling

 

[John D]

LOL at the title!!

 

[wozzaa]

This is the CS forum not Bentley

I tell a lie I got a rattly sunroof which I did not have until my mate decided he needed to roll across my roof. I only had the car for 2 weeks after that and it only rattled when I hit a pot hole or something.

But for the near 3 years before that the clio was the most trouble free car i have owned why I miss the thing so much.

 

[Cam]

tbh mines not too bad, its only the rear left speaker (poss cover) that rattles. Everything else is fine. 18 months/ 18k miles.

 

[Cam]

doh!!! double post.

 

[Ad]

Rattles are only covered for the first 5k apparently.

 

[Davey_182]

Is that true about the 5k thing, they must be pulling yer pudding i've done 6,5k!?!?
After i wrote the first post i went out for a spin and not a single squeak or rattle, do you think she heard me?

 

[Neil G]

Mine's pretty bad these days but I've just got used to it...like a ot of people say, just crank the tunes up

 

[jongsr4]

Got some monsterous creaking coming from somewhere around the passenger seatbelt area.....just cant reach over when im driving to see what it is! lol

 

[Ad]

Is that true about the 5k thing, they must be pulling yer pudding i've done 6,5k!?!?
After i wrote the first post i went out for a spin and not a single squeak or rattle, do you think she heard me?

Seriously I asked about it. My 225 had a chronic rattle, and was 10mths old and they refused to look at it under warranty. Checked with renault and they verefied that. Tbh, i thought it was a poor reflection.

 

[stuart2088]

Am i the only person to have a clio without these problems! Or is it only The 182s etc that suffer.
My 1.5 dci 100 two and a half years old 55000 hard miles no rattles nothing dropped off nowt stopped working and has not been back to renault for any warranty issues.
As good a build quality as any car ive owned over 30 years motoring covering most marques.
I feel privilidged looking at these comments.

 

[jongsr4]

My cup was completely rattle free! its just my ph1 thats filled with them

 

[Davey_182]

So what did you do about the 225 then Ad? Cos everytime this happens i start to think about changing car, but then i love the little 182!!

 

[mij29]

Ive got 1 in the boot, sounds like the catch, 1 in the drivers door, sounds like e window mechenisem and 1 by the front tweeter on the pasenger side. All do my t!ts in.

 

[shaun_cliosport]

lol part n parcel of the clio hahaha

 

[KnightAzul]

Got some monsterous creaking coming from somewhere around the passenger seatbelt area.....just cant reach over when im driving to see what it is! lol

I've got that one too, and also the passenger side air vent below the windscreen.

For the first two years of ownership of my 182 everything was ok, and then the rattles started to develop. No point trying to fix them really as it's a never ending battle.

KnightAzul

 

[shaun_cliosport]

ditto bout the passenger vent creak/rattle,also i got annoing creak from the glovebox hinge area as when i open the glovebox whilst driving and push the lid down really hard the creaking stops lol........but rattles/creaks are impossible to cure