Rattles from the boot area

[DaveTiffTaylor]

Hi, had my MG ZS EV Long range for 2 years, from new, love driving the car, despite the annoying software funnies & omissions.

But what is really begining to annoy me is the rattles that are coming from the rear, I have tried leaving the shelf out and clearing to boot of everything but the creaks & rattles are still there.

Has anybody else having this and if so is there a particular area I should look at?

Regards, Dave

 

[PaulC82]

Check your coil springs!!

 

[fred12345]

Under the boot cover where the charging cable is, maybe? Check that rear seats are clipped upright and yes, coil springs too ...
No noise bothered me ever with my loud music whilst driving...

 

[Coulomb]

There are some posts about getting the latch for the rear hatch adjusted.

 

[BOB353]

Not a loose exhaust pipe is it?

 

[Dangerous]

I too have long suffered this annoying rattle and think I have cured it. The plastic cover of the tailgate vibrates. I have packed it with some long wall plug extrusion along the point where it fits against the lower part of the tailgate window and it seems to have solved the problem. Any thing that fits there will solve the vibration. I first tried some tea towels to test out the theory and it worked. Have a go.

 

[Dangerous]

Sounds like I was mistaken I'm still plagued by this annoying rattle to the extend I may trade in my car for something else!

 

[fred12345]

Sounds like I was mistaken I'm still plagued by this annoying rattle to the extend I may trade in my car for something else!

Try removing every single thing out of the boot and from under the boot cover... and the rear shelf too, see if that changes anything. Could it also be coming from the rear wheel arches as there are some plastic covers there ?

 

[Dangerous]

Check your coil springs!!

Check what?

 

[hmadsen]

Check what?

Coil springs.

Big springs just behind the rear wheels when looking at the car from the side.

My guess is he wants you to check them because if one of them has broken a ring of the bottom or top that makes an awful rattle.

 

[Dangerous]

I don't think there is a broken spring component on either of the coil springs. Took one of the techies from the MG garage out and he said he could hear a slight rattle but I pointed out to him that it wasn't as loud as normal over the particular roads that I took him. He was sat in the back and was no light weight. My theory is that there is little or no pre-load on the springs and when I drive over certain road surfaces there is enough reverberation from them to cause another part of the tailgate to resonate. No doubt impossible to prove unless you replace the springs and find the others faulty.