Interior Rattle Identified

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Hi Doc,

Might this be the old defroster duct that was not fully seated which has been discussed in other threads? My first guess....

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Related to engine speed? You sure its not the standard DI ranger buzz? Its a buzzing noise kind of like a bee, is the best way I can explain it.
 

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Hi Doc,

Might this be the old defroster duct that was not fully seated which has been discussed in other threads? My first guess....

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Phil Schilke
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yup that’s what it was !
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Hi Ed,

Yeah...the past Ranger suffered this annoyance as well. When I inherited Ranger Vehicle Engineering, I started looking at Customer Complaints and decided to start a program to chip away at the ones that were systemic. Things such as skate/dart due to the motion ratio of the rear suspension with inboard shocks for example. Another one was the over the shoulder seat belts chaffing on the driver and front passenger's neck. This resulted in tweaking the mounting and having engineers, administrators, Secretaries evaluate the belts. We had seating bucks that were prior to proposed revision and those that were revised. The data showed the revisions would improve the belting. The downside was what you experience and we experienced with the belts with respect to this rattle on the prior generation of Ranger too. Life is sometimes tough and I made the trade off decision to revise the belts for comfort when belted in vs the rattle. What I found is most customers would figure this out. Was it my finest decision...no but I still feel I made the right call. My wife told me early on in our ownership of my 2007 Ranger that the belts were the best she had for her 5' 2" height. It is in my opinion to be customer focused. We had a narrow window of opportunity due to the fact the Ranger was already in production, but it shows this can be done. After the change about a year later, Seat belts were not on the top 10 anymore... Did I get a back pat for this...Nope...but my satisfaction was in the customer complaint reduction to being a non issue. Seat belt rattle...yep...bubbled up into the top 10, but I took that arrow and the customer won in my opinion.

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@P. A. Schilke , Phil, my vertically challenged wife thanks you for that. In some of my previously owned older cars that was one of her main complaints. I heard "I hate this seat belt, it's right on my neck" to many times to count. So not to worry, she would go to the mat fighting, and saying you made the right decision. :)
 

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Does anyone have the rattle/buzz from the defroster vent plastic piece?
 

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Does anyone have the rattle/buzz from the defroster vent plastic piece?
Hi Trevor,

There are threads on this topic with solutions....just search for defroster duct rattle.

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Phil Schilke
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