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Clicking/Clunking under driver side floor
- Thread starter Trabuek
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With all the computer controlled electronics, relays, solenoids, servomotors, and so on that cars have nowadays, certain noises are to be expected. I came to appreciate this with the electronic throttle in my current (soon to be former) car, which can be heard cycling open and closed before the engine starts (much more noticeable if you are standing outside the car and use the remote starter), and also clicks & whines after shutting the car down for 30 seconds or more. Eventually one learns to disregard those kinds of noises after a while and accept them as "normal" or the "car doing its thing". Obviously this is not true of knocking noises, that's a whole different story, but electronics noises are to be expected since cars are so electronics-laden now.
It's one of many reasons I gave up on my original career choice of auto mechanics and went in a totally and utterly different direction. Mechanics isn't just turning wrenches anymore, hasn't been for a long time, and it's way more complicated than I have the patience for. I'm good with the basics - fluids, filters, tire swaps, brakes, but beyond most of that, that's what someone else gets paid and heavily trained to do.
Makes me miss my old '86 Celebrity - it was a pile of junk by the time I got it but I could still do some work on it lol
Makes me miss my old '86 Celebrity - it was a pile of junk by the time I got it but I could still do some work on it lol
I've got the same kind of thudding / rattle sound when we drive down the road. I thought it was something like a back passenger window rattle. So it's not a panel loose or anything like that? It happens when we are driving down the road and hitting bumps as well. I thought it might be the back passenger plate banging on the tailgate so I bought a better plate holder and put 4 screws on it to stop the thunking sound. We just put $6k into upgrades on it, so maybe I could get some deadening mats under there to get to stop making that incessant noise. At this point, if they buy it back, would they pay for the aftermarket installs we did?
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My issue was the fuel tank. After replacing it, many visits to the shop, and conversations with management I was able to get out of the vehicle within the dealership without going through Ford. Ford Engineers were telling the service department to not fix anything else until a solution was found at the corporate engineering level. Not worth my time. It was fun to drive while it lasted but I’m glad to be back into an F-150.
