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2008 Chrysler Town & Country - rapping noise in dash?
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Versa09
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Dec 15, 2021, 4:32 PM
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2008 Chrysler Town & Country - rapping noise in dash?
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My question really isn't worthy of these forums but the Chrysler forum has been useless for earlier issues so...
I've had this Town & Country for 4-5 months now. I got in it today and headed down my gravel road at maybe 5mph. Before I'd gone a block I started hearing this sharp rapping sound that sounded like someone knocking on the car's plastic dash with a coin (sort of), about three evenly-spaced raps per second. The sound wasn't the least bit muffled and I felt pretty sure the source was inside the cabin somewhere in front of the driver's seat, i.e. behind the dash.
I stopped the car and put it in park and the rapping continued. I turned the key off and the rapping continued for maybe 20 seconds before stopping. I don't recall if it slowed down as it stopped or if it became fainter as it was stopping.
After it stopped, I started the car and continued on, drove it maybe 100 miles with no repeat of the behavior.
Any ideas/wild guesses, etc?
Chrysler Town and Country
Touring edition
3.8L V6
104,000 miles
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2011 Dodge Nitro SXT
SUV 4D (3.7L V6 SMPI)
Odometer: 100,800 miles
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Hammer Time
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Dec 15, 2021, 5:43 PM
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It sounds like you are describing a stripped out temperature door actuator. They have plastic gears and will make a noise like that when they get stripped.
You can try turning the temp in the opposite direction to see if maybe it will stop to confirm the issue.
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Dec 15, 2021, 7:19 PM
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Should be pretty easy as long as you're a contortionist.
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Dec 15, 2021, 7:31 PM
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You're welcome
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Versa09
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Jan 18, 2022, 3:22 PM
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Poverty won out over better judgment and I attempted this replacement today (stripped out temperature door actuator).
While removing one of the screws (A) from the blend door actuator, I dropped it into the gap at the top of the duct (B) (I actually don't know what that piece is but it looks like a duct). I heard the screw hit plastic, then nothing, so it either didn't bounce or maybe fell through onto the carpet. I wound up using the screw from the duct (C) to secure the actuator.
What the missing screw looked like (taken from somebody's YouTube)
More context, also from someone else's YouTube, showing the entire duct and actuator.
So I'm wondering how to hunt for the missing screw. That seems like a dumb question but the only way to hunt behind that duct/vent/whatever it is is to start taking stuff apart and I'm not up to that - replacing that little actuator damn near killed me today. I can kind of reach a fingertip into it here and there but can't feel any loose screw. I removed the top screw so I can get the duct to jiggle just a little bit (it's still secured elsewhere) and don't hear a screw rattling inside.
I've considered that it may have fallen through to the floor behind the vertical dash (with all the heater controls, etc.) The photo above shows hos the side of the vertical dash is fastened... should I be able to just pull those fasteners out?
Any other ideas for searching? I stuck a little pen-magnet down into the duct but didn't catch anything. I'd be okay hunting down a replacement screw (self-tapping Torx 20) if aI knew where to look (or even a generic screw from the hardware store to go back into that duct, but I'm concerned about the screw I dropped. Is it likely to encounter any moving parts (fans/squirrel cages, etc) in that duct?
Sorry these pics are so huge, I have no idea how to reduce their size in the post edit form.
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2011 Dodge Nitro SXT
SUV 4D (3.7L V6 SMPI)
Odometer: 100,800 miles
(This post was edited by Versa09 on Jan 18, 2022, 4:34 PM)
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Hammer Time
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Jan 18, 2022, 3:30 PM
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It's real easy to reduce the size. Just go into the image software and click on the icon shown in the picture.
Once you change the percentage you will have to refresh the question to see the results.
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Jan 18, 2022, 4:41 PM
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Yeah, still a little on the large size.
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Jan 18, 2022, 5:15 PM
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No problem. Looks good now.
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