Squeaks and rattles

[speedfrk]

even new bentleys have squeaks and rattles, they are cars. can you imagine making something with eleventy billion parts screwed together and sending it down different surfaces with varying harmonics and trying to get it not to make any noise?

yeah right! turn up the radio. or go ride in something from the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50, etc and see how quality they seem to you....

heck, go get in a fox body and see if the interior doesn't fall apart when you touch it. you are driving the most well constructed mustang ever made.

let's examine these one at a time... New Bentley's do not have squeaks and rattles. Neither do RR or S-Class Mercedes, or Jag XJ's, etc. Go ride in them. Their NVH control is simply amazing. Mustangs are way better than they used to be but nowhere near state of the art.
Don't compare something bought today with stuff that is 10-50 years old. He didn't buy or pay for a 50 yr old car. He bought a new car with new car expectations. Same with the fox body. Comparing a new car with something 30 years old and 200,000 miles on it is absurd. I had an 88 GT and it was a good car for it's era. But that's about it.
Ford does seem to have a QC problem with the new Mustang. Probably 20% of them have the driveline vibration problem (which my car has and it also has the rattles coming from passenger rear). Lots of cars with body panel problems, windshields and rear windows not installed properly, etc. A couple of the cars I test drove looked like they had been painted with a brush and roller. The fact that Ford ships a car like that tells you they just don't care. Many of these problems could be fixed before the customer bought the car but most Ford dealers just don't care. That is why Ford will never win a JD Powers award for anything.

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[Higgs Boson]

let's examine these one at a time... New Bentley's do not have squeaks and rattles. Neither do RR or S-Class Mercedes, or Jag XJ's, etc. Go ride in them. Their NVH control is simply amazing. Mustangs are way better than they used to be but nowhere near state of the art.
Don't compare something bought today with stuff that is 10-50 years old. He didn't buy or pay for a 50 yr old car. He bought a new car with new car expectations. Same with the fox body. Comparing a new car with something 30 years old and 200,000 miles on it is absurd. I had an 88 GT and it was a good car for it's era. But that's about it.
Ford does seem to have a QC problem with the new Mustang. Probably 20% of them have the driveline vibration problem (which my car has and it also has the rattles coming from passenger rear). Lots of cars with body panel problems, windshields and rear windows not installed properly, etc. A couple of the cars I test drove looked like they had been painted with a brush and roller. The fact that Ford ships a car like that tells you they just don't care. Many of these problems could be fixed before the customer bought the car but most Ford dealers just don't care. That is why Ford will never win a JD Powers award for anything.

I am not making excuses for Ford, I am actually a Chevy guy.

I also would hate to bring up the fact I have been in the car business for 25 years and have owned my share of Mercedes' (my wife currently drives a 2015) and wouldn't own but have driven my share of Bentleys as well....

Bentleys, but more so Rolls' are more disappointing to me than almost any other brand given the price which leads to expectation. The value isn't there, IMO. If you haven't been in a Bentley that made noise it wasn't supposed to make, you haven't driven enough of them. Once I drove a Fiesta that was very quiet.

If you look at my short post history on this forum you will find my own criticism.....but I don't think one should dwell on it. Cars are my life (and they are/were my parents, uncles and grandparents lives) and it is safe to say that they will all disappoint you if you focus on the wrong things, like a rattle. And if you buy them to baby them you are wasting your money.

 

[Rough Hollow Man]

You're right

Last year my wife and I bought a 2015 Mazda 6. It now has 19,000 miles and has never once had a single squeak or rattle.

The interior is nicer, too.

I just wish my Mustang -- which is way more fun to drive -- could have interior on quality with the 4-door sedan I bought that cost $10k less.

My wife has a 2010 Mazda 6 Grand Touring with 120,000 miles on it and it is rock solid with not one squeak or rattle. The leather interior has no appreciable wear whatsoever. And the 3.7 L V-6 has not had a wrench on it except oil changes. So when I found out that my 2015 Cyclone Mustang engine shared a common heritage with the bullet-proof Mazda engines, I now believe that my Mustang engine will share exceptional longevity because of my good Mazda experience. And that basic 3.7 Cyclone populates many other Ford products such as the Lincoln MKZ, etc.:clap2:;):cheers:

 

[shockme66]

My car rides tight as well. I had the headlight rattle; I took off the dash trim and tightened a screw; it has been gone since that.

This is my second mustang had a 2015 EB and traded it in for GT; both were tight. Time will tell, but had a VW prior and that thing rattled like crazy and the suspension squeaked.

 

[SmokedSS]

Mine rattles / squeaks with the windows ups on rough roads and is perfect with windows down. No noise either way on hard bumps. I have waxed my windows where they make contact with the rubber but it sounds like its coming from in the door not the glass but only if window is rolled up.

Any thoughts on what this could be??? It will soon be too could to drive with windows down all the time and I HATE noises.. That's my OCD..

 

[ElAviator72]

Got a rattle that sounds like it is where the A pillar and dash meet up...it is in the dealer being addressed at the moment. P.S. This one seems to happen after you've been driving a while with the AC on, and the cold air has contracted stuff ;) 5,300 miles...

 

[UOP Shadow]

Here is one way to tell if you have an early production, car: check your tilt release lever. If it is metal with a plastic handle, that is a pre-production part. The production lever is all plastic.

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