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Impact Pete

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Door lock buttons rattling
17. Jan 2011 at 13:24

Not a major issue but when cruising on motorways etc, if the stereo is not on and the wife is not prattling away Lips Sealed

, I realise just how smooth and quite the car is bar one thing the plastic door lock buttons on the inside rattle slightly and annoy me a bit as all the rest of the trim does not make a sound.
Anyone got a simple solutions

Like I say a very minor issue compared with the work still outstanding on the car!

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mathewst Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1499 Split, Croatia Gender: Drives: omega 2.2i 16v	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #1 - 17. Jan 2011 at 13:35 Remove the pin and wrap two turns (no more than two) of insulating tape at the bottom part. Will stop rattling
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mathewst Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1499 Split, Croatia Gender: Drives: omega 2.2i 16v	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #2 - 17. Jan 2011 at 13:39 Forgot to mention. Pin is removed by orying outwards the red plastic on the lower part. Take a small flat screwdriver on pry the upper side of red plastic out. It should open and you should be able to remove the pin
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Proz Omega Baron Offline Posts: 2509 Cupar , Fife , Scotland Gender: Drives: 2003 2.2 CD Petrol Saloon	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #3 - 17. Jan 2011 at 13:42 mathewst wrote on 17. Jan 2011 at 13:35: Remove the pin and wrap two turns (no more than two) of insulating tape at the bottom part. Will stop rattling Yeah this method stopped mine rattling too
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Impact Pete Junior Member Offline Posts: 232 Derby Gender: Drives: Omega 2.6 v6 Elite Auto, Tranny Van	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #4 - 17. Jan 2011 at 14:07 mathewst wrote on 17. Jan 2011 at 13:39: Forgot to mention. Pin is removed by orying outwards the red plastic on the lower part. Take a small flat screwdriver on pry the upper side of red plastic out. It should open and you should be able to remove the pin Thank you will have a go soon
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Boditza Senior Member Offline Posts: 608 Craiova, Romania Gender: Drives: Omega 2,2DTI Estate	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #5 - 17. Jan 2011 at 16:10 i need to do this also.. will keep you posted
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tomoco Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1294 leicester Gender: Drives: 2002 2.6 manual	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #6 - 17. Jan 2011 at 17:01 Me to, only passenger door though. Think its something to do with how they(you know who) shut doors. My better half either slams it so hard the speaker nearly pops out or is so gentle it doesnt even catch. Guess it depends on how annoying ive been that day Gonna do the tape trick tommorow
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Re: Door lock buttons rattling
Reply #7 - 17. Jan 2011 at 17:35

I had rattling pins on mine and previous owner had done the tape, by the pin itself is the doorcard loose I.e you can pull it up slightly? This is what had happened to mine took doorcard off and found that the plastic strip which holds the clips had come unstuck, stuck it back down took tape off of pin refitted doorcard and hey presto no rattle
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Re: Door lock buttons rattling
Reply #8 - 17. Jan 2011 at 19:18

All four of mine rattle, lock the doors and only one rattles. Tried the tape idea on my old car, found one layer of tape to be too much and it dislodged itself. Had an idea to bend the rod the button sits on so as to take out the play, but that means taking the door card off and risking the pastiche strip braking off as they sometimes do. Undecided

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Bourne

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Re: Door lock buttons rattling
Reply #9 - 17. Jan 2011 at 19:52

Mine did that too. I bought some self adhesive velcro strips and just used the soft fluffy part by cutting it to the same width as the pin by about 15mm long.With the pin up ,Peel off the back, push the pin towards the glass (it only moves just enough to get the strip in) and slide the strip down into the pin slot till its flush with the top of the door panel.Pull the pin back so that the self adhesive sticks to the panel insert and hey presto , no more rattles. I did mine about a year ago and its still perfect. hth

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Boditza

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Re: Door lock buttons rattling
Reply #10 - 17. Jan 2011 at 19:57

Found something wrong on mine... the drivers side rattles badly, the pessenger not so bad.

look how my drivers door card looks like
open:
http://img17.imageshack.us/i/17012011145.jpg/
closed:
http://img207.imageshack.us/i/17012011146.jpg/

the passenger looks ok
open:
http://img715.imageshack.us/i/17012011148.jpg/
closed:
http://img11.imageshack.us/i/17012011147.jpg/

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Agemo Omega Knight Offline Omega 2.5 Turbo Weasel with Auto cogswapper! Posts: 1332 Cleethorpes Gender: Drives: Facelift 2.5 TD Saloon CDX	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #11 - 17. Jan 2011 at 21:14 Hmmm, mine are at 90 degrees to the top of the door, (just been out to check.) Yours do seem to be slanted.
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Boditza Senior Member Offline Posts: 608 Craiova, Romania Gender: Drives: Omega 2,2DTI Estate	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #12 - 18. Jan 2011 at 06:28 and the drivers one is only half way out(or in) when the door is unlocked. i can't ge the red cap out and make it unrattle
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mathewst Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1499 Split, Croatia Gender: Drives: omega 2.2i 16v	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #13 - 18. Jan 2011 at 08:44 Boditza looks like you'll have to take the door card off
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Boditza Senior Member Offline Posts: 608 Craiova, Romania Gender: Drives: Omega 2,2DTI Estate	Re: Door lock buttons rattling Reply #14 - 18. Jan 2011 at 09:25 i tryed it once and i didnt succeded. removed all the screws, all sockets but when i tryed to pull it up it seemed like it was stuck on the upper part at the window. i don't know how to remove the side mirror triangle also; i read on the guide that by removing that the job becomes easyer. and advice is welcome
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