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Old Mar 22, 2019 | 12:05 PM
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Identified a possible body noise and repair

Hi all. The GTC has an occasional noise you can here and I hate noises. I was prepping the car for a show tomorrow and cleaning the engine compartment and ran across a noise source. I was cleaning the panel that covers the battery and it was making one hell of a creaking sound with just light pressure.

I was able to fix this by removing the panel and applying a small amount of felt on the bottom of the panel where the fasteners are.

There is NO more panel noise. I cant be sure if it was herd on the interior but the noise it made was definitely like what i have herd inside the car.

Here are some pictures if the panel.

Panel is at top center of picture.

felt goes under these fasteners.

Felt under fasteners.
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Old Mar 22, 2019 | 08:46 PM
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Interesting, my 2019 coupe does not have this cover over the battery. I wonder why?
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Old Mar 22, 2019 | 09:35 PM
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There was a discussion about what cars get the covers. One over battery and other over brake cylinder. It appears from the discussion they are for the gtc only.
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Old Mar 23, 2019 | 06:58 PM
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Nope. My GTC convertible is sans cover. See photos. (I'm ashamed to show my photos of dirty engine bay in a post with Katie's!) Another interesting thing I noticed is the difference in the rear hood vents. The passenger side has a larger scoop underneath and the driver's side has a little scoop. Not sure where either sends air to. Didn't chase them down.

no cover!


look at the size of the air scoop on left.


tiny scoop on driver's side
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Originally Posted by Katie22
There was a discussion about what cars get the covers. One over battery and other over brake cylinder. It appears from the discussion they are for the gtc only.
My GT R has the two covers.
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