Front Door Rattle
 

Do any of you guys have a slight door rattle on the front passenger side? On the highway expansion joints or choppy sections of road I can hear a distinct rattle that seems to be coming from behind that black piano finish plastic piece surround for the window/locks.

I took it to the dealership to have them check it out and take the door apart but those morons couldn't hear anything. Low and behold after sitting in an 1 hr traffic jam in a crappy auto 4 cyl Mazda 6 I pick up my car and I hear it again. Nice of them to waste a 1/4 tank of my gas probably revving my car to 9000 rpms when it's not even broken in yet without fixing my problem.

they've fixed my door 3 times for this issue (driver side) and now they tell me I'm past the 12k mark, so they don't work on rattles anymore.

I understand why they would do that, but this is the same exact issue I've had with the car for a zillion years...

I think the best route to take is to go to an audio shop, and have them fill up the door with dynomat. It'll deaden sound and make sure nothing moves in there.

You may be wrong concerning the location.

Hard to pick up where the sound really is.

Read the TSB's.

There's one for the door that has to do with the seat belt, or something like it.
Check it out. Then if you think it's it, print it and bring it in to the dealer.

it's actually easy for me to see where it's coming from. The sound is consistant, and goes away if I push on the black area just behind the door handle.

I looked on the Rosenthal TSB site and didn't see anything regarding a door rattle, just airbag rattle on 04's.

I'm fairly sure mine is right where I think it is, it's ridiculous that a car with less than 1000 miles and 2 weeks old should be rattling. I didn't have a single rattle on my 9 year old 91,000 mile BMW M3 sedan the day I sold it. My center cupholder cover doesn't click back into the closing position without me holding the button down as I slide it either. Sometimes I wonder if Mazda really builds these cars in mexico and slaps a japanese 95% label on the window sticker.

The RX8 is cheaply made in alot of aspects. Not what I would expect from a car with a sticker price of more than 32K.

uh. 32k isn't exactly high a end price tag. It's under the median cost of a new car.

I dare say that most of you didn't pay 32k for your rx-8 anyway. Mine has gt, navi, ms spoiler and other stuff, and it ran 31k two years ago.

POLAK posted a fix for this somewhere....

Here it is:
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-do-yourself-forum-73/diy-rattle-hunt-79235/

Much appreciated! Looks like it's time to take the door apart