I found the problem!! Now how do I fix it??

[DrummingFrenzy]

Ok, Craig might remember this, but I posted a little while ago about a buzzing sound possibly coming from my stock tweeters. It seemed to be whenever a good bass note would play. Well, I figured out what it was. It wasn't my tweeters. After a little more research and some leaning over while I was driving, I found that it's my power mirror control. That little square thing that moves my driver and passenger side mirrors. It vibrates and makes an annoying little buzzing noise. It doesn't just happen when I have music on either. It happens when I'm driving in a gear at low RPMs too. If I put my finger on the control just pressing lightly, it stops. Personally, I don't want to have to ride with my finger on the controls or ghetto fix it with tape. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

 

[AZMSP]

super glue. take the door apart, and get it to where you can see the bottom of the switch, push it out a little, squirt some glue in between the switch and the door pannel, and squeeze together. prob fixed.

 

[DrummingFrenzy]

Yeah, but will the switch still work?

 

[Poseur]

That little panel can be pryed off from the back (towards the rear of the car) then it just slots into the front. I've found that the whole panel kinda of rattles as well. I've noticed the window rocker buzz myself and have been intending to do something about it, but haven't quite got there yet. In fact, it's slow at work, I might go grab it off, and see what I can do. I've been chasing rattles ever since I switched my sub over to 1ohm. Just tacled my spoiler a couple days ago I've mostly been enjoying that being quiet now.

 

[Brian MP5T]

Take it to the dealer.

Yeah, but will the switch still work?

Don't you think that if you spend tens of thousands of dollars on something that isn't working the way it should or doing something it isn't supposed to do, the Mazda dealership should fix it for you??

 

[DrummingFrenzy]

That little panel can be pryed off from the back (towards the rear of the car) then it just slots into the front. I've found that the whole panel kinda of rattles as well. I've noticed the window rocker buzz myself and have been intending to do something about it, but haven't quite got there yet. In fact, it's slow at work, I might go grab it off, and see what I can do. I've been chasing rattles ever since I switched my sub over to 1ohm. Just tacled my spoiler a couple days ago I've mostly been enjoying that being quiet now.

Cool, let me know if you find out anything. It's annoying the heck out of me.

The dealership should do something, but I don't think that they will.

 

[Poseur]

Alright, so not sure, but this MIGHT help something...

I pulled the panel and had at it. Looking at the rocker itself, I'm not sure if there's any way to truly kill all of the sound, but here's a pic of how it works (kinda interesting really) there are 4 little white "buttons" that protrude, and it determines from which combination of them are depressed which way it controls the motors. Anyway, the only thing I could think to do is put some of the extra e-dead I've got lying around on the inside of the square itself, and then when I mounted it back, I made "grommets" of sorts with a spare piece of roadbike bar-tape This stuff in particular is gel tape, kills road vibration really well on a bike, figure it's as good as anything else for this setup. Actually bar-tape has been coming in handy for ALOT of my vibration dampening all over the place. The gel stuff is non-adhesive, but the normal stuff (called Torelli Moda Chunky) has a light re-moveable adhesive backing to it. I highly reccomend it to pppl. should cost $10-$15 at your local bike shop.

 

[Poseur]

The unit itself looks like this.

Sorry, that other pic doesn't show the buttons very well...

 

[Poseur]

Here's the Bar-tape I was talking about. It's a very dense foam. The gel version that I have is impregnated with a rubbery gel down the center strip. Like I said, it works WONDERS on a roadbike for keeping your hands from going numb.

This stuff's really came in handy for filling gaps and ridding my car of vibration in a bunch of little places. It's the kind of stuff I'm used to using, but figured you guys may not know it exists... you get 2 6 foot rolls for pretty cheap, or you might be able to scrounge the shop floor and find some spare chunks.

 

[Poseur]

Okay, so between wha tI listed, and then a couple spots of bartape (adhesive style) between the switch panel and the door panel, it seems to be a success. Hard to say for sure since I never noticed the noise all the time, but driving aorund blatantly listening for it I've yet to hear a thing. Wow, thanks for the reminder/inspiration. On to the next little buzz I can find now...

 

[DrummingFrenzy]

Thanks a lot. I'll see if I can get some of that stuff around here.