Squeaks and Creeks??

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I have a 2008 MazdaSpeed 3 GT..I was wondering if anyone else has experienced annoying creeks while driving..I cant pinpoint where the noise is coming from but i definetely think it is coming from inside the car primarily upfront but on the passenger side is my best guess..I thought it may be the seat tracks possibly but not sure..

Any help would be appreciated..its drivin me NUTS!!! Thanks
 
yea i have the same thing happening to my 2007.5 speed3. it is defin coming from up front and inside. couldnt pin point it either tho, so i have it going back to the dealership so they can figure it out. it goes in thursday so ill post when i get it back
 
There's a bar that runs across the back of the glovebox that could do it. Or there is a bulletin for the windshield since it creaks and ticks also.
www. mazda 3 forums .com/index.php?topic=63178.510
www. mazda 3 forums .com/index.php?topic=99586.0
www. mazda 3 forums .com/index.php?topic=96782.msg1974057#msg1974057
TAKE OUT THE SPACES
 
I had my wife listen as I was driving and we figured out where the creek is coming from...Its actually coming from the drivers seat belt lock...when you hear the creek grab the seatbelt lock and it disapears..I'm gonna have the dealer check it out...

And the windshield is extremely irritating..Any fixes with this that you know of??
 
The TSB on replacing the pads on the cowling hooks is fine if not for the fact that mine had the sound from day 1. The pads were new but the noise was still there. I removed the plastic cowling that covers the integrated strut brace and the sounds went away completely. When I reinstalled the two halves of the cowling I had put 'very small' beads of silicon on all the points the cowling touched metal or glass (NOT the soft rubber strip across the bottom of the windshield, just the mounting points). The sounds went away.
 
sadpanda said:
I had my wife listen as I was driving and we figured out where the creek is coming from...Its actually coming from the drivers seat belt lock...when you hear the creek grab the seatbelt lock and it disapears..I'm gonna have the dealer check it out...
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Cool, someone else that has this too. My driver side belt lock does it. I figured out when it would creak, that if I moved it forward or back it'd stop. It's a loud creek like a door opening. I thought it was the seat at first, like the springs.
I thought I'd squirt some WD40 on it and see if it goes away.

This happened the SAME day as my cowl creak. That and something from the glove box AND center console. It's depressing it sounds worse than my 93 MX6 ever did and it's only 6 months old and I owe so much on it still!
 
To be clear and crystal

MX6toMS3 said:
Cool, someone else that has this too. My driver side belt lock does it. I figured out when it would creak, that if I moved it forward or back it'd stop. It's a loud creek like a door opening. I thought it was the seat at first, like the springs.
I thought I'd squirt some WD40 on it and see if it goes away.

This happened the SAME day as my cowl creak. That and something from the glove box AND center console. It's depressing it sounds worse than my 93 MX6 ever did and it's only 6 months old and I owe so much on it still!
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There is a fix for the cowl creak as well as a fix for the belt creak. I never had the belt creak but I did have the cowl creak whihc my dealer just fixed. It takes about an hour and a half to fix. I believe there is a TSB on it. I had the same creak on my Mz5.

My MS3 is as tight as a drum and it's been hovering around freezing for the past several weeks.
 
Antonio DiMarco said:
There is a fix for the cowl creak as well as a fix for the belt creak. I never had the belt creak but I did have the cowl creak whihc my dealer just fixed. It takes about an hour and a half to fix. I believe there is a TSB on it. I had the same creak on my Mz5.

My MS3 is as tight as a drum and it's been hovering around freezing for the past several weeks.
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Yeah, I fixed the cowl creak a few days ago. It's still audible, but very very faint. I just need to fix the belt creak now.
 
I'm surpised, I don't hear anything

MX6toMS3 said:
Yeah, I fixed the cowl creak a few days ago. It's still audible, but very very faint. I just need to fix the belt creak now.
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Surprised to hear that you still hear a faint creak.

I am lucky, my mechanic owns a Speed 3 and is even more obsessive about it. So I know he'll be aware of little before me.

Give you an example: Although they did not hear the creak when I brought it in, he applied the fix anyway becasue he knew it existed. Got to love that.
 
Antonio DiMarco said:
Give you an example: Although they did not hear the creak when I brought it in, he applied the fix anyway becasue he knew it existed. Got to love that.
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Wow that's lucky. My good fortune is that I have a boyfriend that believes me when I say something squeaks, because he IS a service tech at a dealership and knows what that's like, it's just that it's Nissan and not Mazda.
 
sadpanda said:
I have a 2008 MazdaSpeed 3 GT..I was wondering if anyone else has experienced annoying creeks while driving..I cant pinpoint where the noise is coming from but i definetely think it is coming from inside the car primarily upfront but on the passenger side is my best guess..I thought it may be the seat tracks possibly but not sure..

Any help would be appreciated..its drivin me NUTS!!! Thanks
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I've got an 07 with about 7100 miles on it and it only creaks when it's really cold out. Like the teens and below it seems. Sounds liek my suspension compressing or soemthing. Kind fo drives me nuts since it's a new car but it IS only in cold weather so whatever.
 
AllLostThings said:
I've got an 07 with about 7100 miles on it and it only creaks when it's really cold out. Like the teens and below it seems. Sounds liek my suspension compressing or soemthing. Kind fo drives me nuts since it's a new car but it IS only in cold weather so whatever.
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This might be what your talking about - http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123695615.
What sadpanda is talking about is a door creaking type sound coming from the seatbelt/front seat area.
Too many creaks! Someone should come up with an organized list of symptoms and prognosis's!
 
i just got back from the dealer and they figured out what was wrong with mine. under the hood where the washer fluid jets are there is a removable peice of plastic. it was loose and thus causing the annoying sound. they took it out and reinstalled it and no more noise. they also ordered me a new one just incase they said :D
 
That sounds like the suspension crunch

AllLostThings said:
I've got an 07 with about 7100 miles on it and it only creaks when it's really cold out. Like the teens and below it seems. Sounds liek my suspension compressing or soemthing. Kind fo drives me nuts since it's a new car but it IS only in cold weather so whatever.
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What you describe maybe the suspension crunch that many newer cars exhibit when it's VERY cold out. My MS3 also makes that sound under heavy suspension compression (hitting a speed bump for example) but it goes away after a few miles of driving.

The windshield creak sound like it's coming from the entire windshield area. My wife likened it to the sound of rain hitting the car's skin -before it was fixed...
 
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