FortyPlus
15-10-2018, 09:14 PM
Hi all
I had been hugely irritated by a rattle from somewhere in the back seat area of my Q7 but could not isolate it. Annoyingly it happened on roundabouts and corners, but less so over bumps. When in for the first service I asked the garage to investigate and they felt it was something that had gotten into the heating duct under the passenger seat. The only cure was to remove the seat & duct, several hours work and several hundred euro in labour.
I had a moment of inspiration and fashioned a 60cm long extension for a vacuum cleaner from duct tape, a ad-blue filler hose (!) discarded flexible electrical conduit and fished around in the ducting. After a few attempts and different designs I finally fished out the offending item: a blanking plug from the 12V power point.
Interesting that it was at least 30cm down in the ducting, and not easy to retrieve. There is nothing to stop coins, etc getting kicked into the duct.
35404
I had been hugely irritated by a rattle from somewhere in the back seat area of my Q7 but could not isolate it. Annoyingly it happened on roundabouts and corners, but less so over bumps. When in for the first service I asked the garage to investigate and they felt it was something that had gotten into the heating duct under the passenger seat. The only cure was to remove the seat & duct, several hours work and several hundred euro in labour.
I had a moment of inspiration and fashioned a 60cm long extension for a vacuum cleaner from duct tape, a ad-blue filler hose (!) discarded flexible electrical conduit and fished around in the ducting. After a few attempts and different designs I finally fished out the offending item: a blanking plug from the 12V power point.
Interesting that it was at least 30cm down in the ducting, and not easy to retrieve. There is nothing to stop coins, etc getting kicked into the duct.
35404