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VT door shakes / rattles over bumps

johnno010684

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the black plastic striker only came out on vx's above so it is a common prob for vt'v
 

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the black plastic striker only came out on vx's above so it is a common prob for vt'v

Yeah thats true, VT's came with clear plastic lol.

Anyways I managed to fix the problem with my door by taking it in a few mill.

Also the passenger seat doesnt rattle since I changed my shocks to the lowered GT Sport... Come to think of it, nothing rattles now.
 

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Well i have a passenger side door without the plastic and its starting to rattle.
 

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all my doors rattle. holden manual also mentioned a thin strip (Flock tape) that runs along the top of the door seal. stops rubber sqeaking. i also have the plastic missing from the strikers tho.
 

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Fitted the new plastic coated striker plates today, noticible improvement. the 2 PS and DSR dont rattle at all the DSF needs a slight tweak *I still have to do the hinge pins yet, and adjust it about 1mm up, but it only moves very slightly now, so my advice, invest $32 on a set of new strikers, money well spent.

Now to get that awful factory stereo sounding better......................
 

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Fitted the new plastic coated striker plates today, noticible improvement. the 2 PS and DSR dont rattle at all the DSF needs a slight tweak *I still have to do the hinge pins yet, and adjust it about 1mm up, but it only moves very slightly now, so my advice, invest $32 on a set of new strikers, money well spent.

Now to get that awful factory stereo sounding better......................

Where they easy to replace?.. is it a matter of just marking the position of the existing plates, removing the old ones and installing the new ones?

Do i need to do anything else other than that?
 

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gday have the same problem too... dsf rattles when going over bumps in the road etc
is it easy to replace? can it be done by a bit of a newbie like myself?
 

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Must be very common for the VT's to do this. Miine has done it from about 40,000k's. Mine still had the plastic over the strikers untill recently though. Could see from outsde the car that the doors just didn't seem to sit perfectly flush with the rest of the car though. I'm guessign it could be the pins? or maybe just need to adjust the striker?
 
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