Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting Interior rattles survey. Time to sound off!

I really don't have any major rattles to speak of. I mean I have the general 'looseness' sounds that a car with nearly 100k makes among all the plastic pieces in the dash, but none of that I would call as a rattle. In fact, on warm, humid days, it seems to tighten up and is almost as quite as when it was new.

I do have a bit of rear suspension clunking over very rough roads, which I'm pretty sure is the common rear sway bar bushings, but it doesn't bother me enough for me to fix it. Under normal road conditions it doesn't make a sound.

I used to have a weird, very annoying metallic rattle coming from the center of the dash, like behind the stereo. But that went away by itself a long time ago. Oh, and when I first got the car, the reverse lockout collar on the shifter rattled at highway speeds like crazy. Drove me nuts, and of course the stupid Ford dealer says they couldn't find the problem. So, I fixed it myself by holding up the lockout collar with a hoseclamp beneath it under the shifter boot - no more rattle, and no more stupid lockout device. Other than that, my car has always been rattle free.