Hi just to update you all, I took the van in for two days last week. By the evening of the second day I had been told there is a definite rattle, but they needed more time to discount a long list of "hand written" items. Those being all my mods. I said well I can tell you without investigating that the wheels and suspension; rear bumper protector, roof bars, side bars, grilles and side repeaters dont make the window rattle so that shortens the list a hell of a lot. They did not like my tone so I just said youve had it long enough so I walked to the van centre and took it back. The service guy did say they had narrowed it to an area at the top of the door. Gee Whizz it took 2 days. They also said they found the n/s rear door handle inside, didnt work the door. So they wanted to book it in for a week end of July.
I went home and began to question my work, stripped the headlining out and double checked none of my additional cables were rattling. All was good. I took the sliding door trim off n/s and found the plug off the switch. Not caused by my sound deadenning or insulation. Fixed that.....15 mins tops.
Back to the O/S window rattle, after 1/2 hour I had fixed that too, it was a slight maladjustment of the top bracket. I pulled the door in 1mm at the top on the adjustment and also tweaked the striker at the top to suit....hey presto....no rattle. I should charge VW a weeks labour!
I don't think mechanics these days are able to problem solve for themselves...if the vcds doesnt tell them the problem they are generally lost for ideas. They should be made to own a 1970's ford RS of some description you get to know whats wrong and be able to fix them, often on the side of the road in the dark.
Glad the tyres arent flat they would want it 5 days.1 to diagnose and 1 per corner to pump each one up.
If there isn't tech available to do/solve something we scratch our heads....just like the old days!
