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Old 05-16-2013, 02:13 PM   #1
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Default 2.5i making rattling sound around 3k rpm

Anyone else ever have this problem? Doesn't seem to happen all the time but frequent enough to worry me. It's an 07 with 100k miles.
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Old 05-16-2013, 02:56 PM   #2
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Exhaust heat shield, perhaps?
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Old 05-16-2013, 03:58 PM   #3
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Hopefully it is the exhaust. Try to have someone reproduce it while you walk around and get under the car. That will enable you to isolate where it is coming from. There are many different things that can cause a rattle on a car. Figuring out where it is coming from is the first step to solving the problem.

Good Luck!
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Old 05-16-2013, 05:47 PM   #4
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It only seems to happen when I'm driving. In neutral, revving my engine I can't seem to mimic the noise.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:18 PM   #5
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My shifter rattles like crazy at high revs. I am pretty sure I have the heat shield rattles as well. I will be checking them again this weekend when I do a timing belt change.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:46 PM   #6
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My shifter does the same! & alright. I need to do my timing belt soon too. Are you doing it yourself?
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Old 05-17-2013, 10:18 AM   #7
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Just fixed my friends heat shield rattle on his legacy. Get under the car when its cool and give the shield and the entire exhaust system a good wiggle.
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Old 05-17-2013, 02:45 PM   #8
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It only seems to happen when I'm driving. In neutral, revving my engine I can't seem to mimic the noise.
That was the same symptoms I had as well and it was the heat shield. A large pipe clamp around the heat shield beside the o2 sensor fixed it right up.
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Old 05-17-2013, 05:42 PM   #9
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I got the same thing on mine and I figure it's the heat shield on the headers. It's annoying but it doesn't bother me.
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Old 05-17-2013, 05:46 PM   #10
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I have a heat shield rattle at idle and it took me forever to figure out my rattle at 3000-4500 RPM on the highway was my shifter.

Try this: when it starts making the noise grab you shifter and put slight pressure to the left or right and see if it changes pitch or goes away
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Old 05-17-2013, 06:37 PM   #11
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Got rid if the heat shield rattle with hose clamps, too...10k or so and they're still holding...
About that shifter rattle...did you find a way to quiet that down, it's getting to be annoying...
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Old 05-17-2013, 09:28 PM   #12
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The bloody shifter rattles on every damn 2.5l N/A around 4000 rpm, even more so if you change to a S.S. I flooded it with oil, made a huge tight knot with a rubber vacuum hose around the linkage area, attached a half-a-pound piece of metal to make everything heavier (and therefore dampen or change the frequency of the resonance) and wrapped all of that in electric tape. The leather boot barely fits over the shifter which is now harder to move, but the rattling ALMOST went away. I'd take a picture, but it's humiliating
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Old 05-17-2013, 11:31 PM   #13
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I had a similar rattle around 3k rpm in my 2008 2.5i a/t. any consensus on what it is?
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Old 05-18-2013, 01:30 AM   #14
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The bloody shifter rattles on every damn 2.5l N/A around 4000 rpm, even more so if you change to a S.S. I flooded it with oil, made a huge tight knot with a rubber vacuum hose around the linkage area, attached a half-a-pound piece of metal to make everything heavier (and therefore dampen or change the frequency of the resonance) and wrapped all of that in electric tape. The leather boot barely fits over the shifter which is now harder to move, but the rattling ALMOST went away. I'd take a picture, but it's humiliating
Haha! I'm not willing to go through all that to get rid of a little rattle. I always thought it was change in my cup holder or something until about last week.
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Old 05-18-2013, 03:21 PM   #15
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i have something like a rattle below 2500rpm on warm days:


No dealership or mechanic shop i took it to could fix it. They clamped my heatshields and tightened all the headers and bolts and whatever down there. It has not improved one bit. Funny thing is it doesn't happen in cold days.
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Old 05-28-2013, 10:23 PM   #16
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I've heard the only option is the remove the heat shielding around the exhaust.
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Old 06-03-2013, 09:32 PM   #17
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I've heard the only option is the remove the heat shielding around the exhaust.
Or do what I mentioned and add a pipe clamp to squeeze the two pieces together gently and stop them vibrating. Ghetto slightly, but I didn't want to loose the heat shield and for $0.99 it was a great fix.
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Old 06-03-2013, 09:54 PM   #18
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The bloody shifter rattles on every damn 2.5l N/A around 4000 rpm, even more so if you change to a S.S. I flooded it with oil, made a huge tight knot with a rubber vacuum hose around the linkage area, attached a half-a-pound piece of metal to make everything heavier (and therefore dampen or change the frequency of the resonance) and wrapped all of that in electric tape. The leather boot barely fits over the shifter which is now harder to move, but the rattling ALMOST went away. I'd take a picture, but it's humiliating
take 20 mins to change the $3 bushings and be done with it
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Old 06-04-2013, 02:01 AM   #19
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nice work
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Old 06-06-2013, 08:53 PM   #20
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Which bushings, RaceFace?
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Which bushings, RaceFace?
Shift lever. There are a couple on the lever/linkage connection under the shifter boot.

There are also some on the linkage under the shifter where it anchors to the body and where it braces near the transmission bellhousing, but i doubt those are the source of the rattle.
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Old 06-07-2013, 11:47 AM   #22
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True, but it's not as if they were worn out after a few years in a cozy environment - unless I get some of the same format but in rubber...
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True, but it's not as if they were worn out after a few years in a cozy environment - unless I get some of the same format but in rubber...
Sure they were. They Don't wear because of the environment, it's the constant vibration anytime the engine is running and the small amount of rotation from every gear change. Mine were worn enough to see the slop after 18 months of driving from new.

If you replace with oem, make sure you lube then with something tenacious like a tacky lithium grease or heavy packing grease. Bearing grease doesn't have the staying power to hold in place in an open environment.
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Old 06-08-2013, 10:40 AM   #24
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Thank you, will try it.
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Old 06-08-2013, 11:49 AM   #25
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I have the same issue with the heat shield. Rattles at low RPMs but not at idle. Gotta get under my car and fiddle with the exhaust to find it.
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