Here's a good laugh on my stupidity.
For the past two or three months, I kept hearing some rattling when the CX-5 is under heavy acceleration, mostly when going uphill on 2nd gear around 1.5k-2k RPM. It's very inconsistent, hard to reproduce. The sound seemed to come from the dashboard on the far right (near passenger side). I thought I messed something up while taking the chrome vents out for plastidipping, so I removed the right chrome vent, then even the top small vent, then even jamming/shimming any slits/slots/spaces that I think could be the cause. Every time I made a change, had to wait a day or two to hear it again so it's a slow and painful troubleshooting process.
Then, the road in front of my house was under construction, they stripped and scribed the asphalt for resurfacing, that's when I can hear the rattling more often. Turned out, (drum roll), it's my sunglasses in the top compartment above my head. The lid has some felt liner in there, but my sunglasses is just a tiny bit taller than the liner, so it doesn't always rattle until it's bumped up high enough over the liner to hit the plastic wall. I just need to flip the sunglasses the other way, a little harder to close the lid, but no more rattling for the last two weeks. I can even reproduce the rattling by turning the sunglasses back the way it was.
Maybe my hearing is degrading, maybe because it's slightly above my right ear and I didn't expect it, but the rattling totally sounded like it came from the dash on the far right. Anyway, the car sounds stronger without that annoying noise
For the past two or three months, I kept hearing some rattling when the CX-5 is under heavy acceleration, mostly when going uphill on 2nd gear around 1.5k-2k RPM. It's very inconsistent, hard to reproduce. The sound seemed to come from the dashboard on the far right (near passenger side). I thought I messed something up while taking the chrome vents out for plastidipping, so I removed the right chrome vent, then even the top small vent, then even jamming/shimming any slits/slots/spaces that I think could be the cause. Every time I made a change, had to wait a day or two to hear it again so it's a slow and painful troubleshooting process.
Then, the road in front of my house was under construction, they stripped and scribed the asphalt for resurfacing, that's when I can hear the rattling more often. Turned out, (drum roll), it's my sunglasses in the top compartment above my head. The lid has some felt liner in there, but my sunglasses is just a tiny bit taller than the liner, so it doesn't always rattle until it's bumped up high enough over the liner to hit the plastic wall. I just need to flip the sunglasses the other way, a little harder to close the lid, but no more rattling for the last two weeks. I can even reproduce the rattling by turning the sunglasses back the way it was.
Maybe my hearing is degrading, maybe because it's slightly above my right ear and I didn't expect it, but the rattling totally sounded like it came from the dash on the far right. Anyway, the car sounds stronger without that annoying noise
