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Rattle noises are very common in many cars, even when new. There are a thousand causes of unwanted noises in a car and I'm sure many of you had spent many frustrated hours trying to rid them. I am very sensitive to interior cabin noises and will always spend alot of efforts trying to identify and eliminate them. So I thought of starting this thread for everybody to share how they solve their unwanted car noises. Here, I want to share one type that had been bugging me for 6 months and how to solve it. I have other cases and I will subsequently post them in this thread, with photos to guide. I drive a 2014 Sylphy. This particular rattle noise is a single "tiak" sound that sounded usually when turning or small road perturbations at slower speed. It seems to come from front passenger dash area. It sounded like something loose hitting gently against plastic. Had tried to rectify it with tan chong during last 3 servicing but not successful. I was pretty sure the source is from within the cabin or dash area and not from engine bay area so I had been spending majority of my efforts internally. I was wrong. It came from engine bay area. There is this cable that was not secured, at the battery side, near to the front left suspension top mount. See photo. If i manually hit it against the metal chassis, it produced a similar tiak sound. So i use a cable tie to secure it so it does not move freely. After that, that tiak sound was no longer there. I tested through 1 day of normal driving. I am not sure what signal this cable carries but there is a similar one at the other side. I secured that as well. So look around your engine bay area for such unsecured cables and clamp it down!

Car has some paint splattered (some are fine dots whereas some are quite big like five cents coin and even a long one) which i suspect is from the paint used for the multi carpark upgrading. Those that landed on the windscreens and plastic parts can be easily scrapped off fortunately. Question: 1. Whats the best way to remove these unwanted paint? Thinner, machine polish, etc? 2. Possible to provide feedback to Town Council/HDB for compensation due to negligence of the workers? Appreciate advise from those that have similar experience.

Hi all, IMHO, cruise control is quite useless in Singapore. When set to 110Km/h on lane 1, sure kena road hogger or be chased by someone who run even faster than 110Km/h . Switched to Lane 2 also vomit blood if set to 90Km/h. Either kena blocked by heavy vehicles or slower moving cars . Also those headlight wipper, hahaha...whatever they are for . Regards,

Hi guys, are there any companies that buys up used furnitures when moving house? As I will be going off soon, I would like to sell my furnitures. All are solid wood based and in good conditions. It will be a waste if I allow the agent to take it. I just want to take a token of S$50-70 per piece for the furnitures. Thanks regards

Hello, Doing some spring cleaning before my house moving. Is there a better way to dispose of the following than putting them in the thrash bin? - old magazines - old books - old items Does places like Salvation Army accept them?