Widow Door rattle / vibration source when playing music and how to actually fix door rattle permanently

[horbit]

@horbit I'm stealing your picture to show where I'm 99% sure the sound it coming from. I believe the door card sits into this groove and the rattle is coming from the bass causing the door card to bump up against this groove. I'm going to try placing some foam into this groove and see if it stops it for good.

If anyone tries this sooner I'd love to see the results as I'm not sure when I'll have the opportunity to try it myself.

Interesting and that makes sense to me. I wonder if foam can be placed behind it or in the groove, or on the connecting parts of the door card.

I would say that when I first got the car and heard the rattles, I would press my forearm against the upper portion of the door card and some of the rattles went away.

@horbit so, rattle aside, are the soundskins worth it?

I would say any sound deadening to the front doors in this way are 100% worth it, rear doors don't rattle much since the driver size is so much smaller. Soundskins kit just makes it easy with the precut kit but you can cheap out and probably get the same effect.

Also I left a 5 star review for this Soundskins product on their website with some concerns about the rear door precut being off (precut holes missing, 1cm too wide, and a wire passthrough slit location issue), they never posted the review. I have an issue with that.

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[FlaFlaFloFly]

Oh, that’s interesting they don’t post the review…
I am in my car now and pressing anywhere on the panel doesn’t help. However, what does help is grabbing and squeezing the handle on the door. The second I let up, it starts buzzing.
my go-to song for rattles has been Bust a Move. Neighbors must think I love that song! Lol

 

[horbit]

Oh, that’s interesting they don’t post the review…
I am in my car now and pressing anywhere on the panel doesn’t help. However, what does help is grabbing and squeezing the handle on the door. The second I let up, it starts buzzing.
my go-to song for rattles has been Bust a Move. Neighbors must think I love that song! Lol

These pictures show the handle area you may want to focus on. There are two bolt holes circled near each end of the handle location. You can see the amount of material I have in the general area, I don't have a handle rattle.

 

[FlaFlaFloFly]

These pictures show the handle area you may want to focus on. There are two bolt holes circled near each end of the handle location. You can see the amount of material I have in the general area, I don't have a handle rattle.

Thanks for the photo. Truly appreciate it. I’ve been kicking around the soundskins, or new tail lights. Not sure I can convince the wife of both… I’ll try wrapping that tape around that area.

 

[Joestac]

I'm late to the game but doing this now. The metal tab at the top of the guide. Do you need to make sure that slots in somewhere up there you can't see? Or does it just do it by the fact of sliding it up the rubber track?

 

[horbit]

I haven't done the rail thing yet but a different owner did this. All on the outside and around the top a bit.

 

[Joestac]

@horbit Sorry, I knew what to cover, I was just not sure when you are reinserting it into the door if that little notch is a pain to get in where it is supposed to go. Spoiler alert, it isn't. Everything slid back into place just fine.

I also put some random strips on exposed metal on the driver door. Put everything back together and it would appear that metal rattle is gone. One thing I did notice as I also was listening with the door open, the very bottom of the door rattles a little, but I am guessing that is because it does not have the seal of the door being closed.

I don't know that I notice it while the door is closed and I'm listening to music. Played Chlorine by 21 Pilots and cranked it to 40, no rattle I can hear while the door is closed. I need to go cook some burgers or the wife is going to cut me, so I'll do the other doors tomorrow.

The passenger windows isn't rattling now but I may as well do it now that I have the tools and nohow. Thanks for this thread!

 

[MBPro]

So my rattle is coming from top left of window when closed. Like closest to the B pillar but top left of the door surround. I pulled the weather stripping and sprayed expanding foam in. Did zero. And that’s not a part of the door you can separate or get into. The good news is it’s directly next to my head. Wth

 

[Cranberry]

Im finding this very interesting. I have been pushing my trucks sound system to its limits trying to re create this rattle and for the life of me i cant. My friend however who has my identical truck but 2025 not 2026 like mine, he has this rattle issue on any slight bass music at volume 40.

I wonder if Toyota fixed the issue on the 2026 models?

 

[Joestac]

So my rattle is coming from top left of window when closed. Like closest to the B pillar but top left of the door surround. I pulled the weather stripping and sprayed expanding foam in. Did zero. And that’s not a part of the door you can separate or get into. The good news is it’s directly next to my head. Wth

Might be the seat belt mechanism. I thought there was another thread showing a rattle coming from there.

 

[sstarrx2]

Im finding this very interesting. I have been pushing my trucks sound system to its limits trying to re create this rattle and for the life of me i cant. My friend however who has my identical truck but 2025 not 2026 like mine, he has this rattle issue on any slight bass music at volume 40.

I wonder if Toyota fixed the issue on the 2026 models?

I have zero rattles when playing music on my 2025 SR5. I do have Beat Sonic and Alpine Speaker upgrade.

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