Interior rattles, creeks and clicks - Lotus' and Dealer's response.

[Kaz]

I posted in another thread forgot about this one, my sound was isolated to the steering column assembly as they could hear the sound from the outside too slowly going over speed bumps. My car is getting serviced right now under warranty with a new steering column, pick up next week will report back but that's where my sound comes from -

 

[Rayjoedef]

My car had same issue......hard tapping noise coming from the front of car transmitting through steering column. Well after 30 days and lotus engineering in tow, they found the problem. The subframe rail bolts that attach to tub were not lubricated. They removed, lubed, and retorqued bolts - quiet as a library

 

[Kaz]

I posted in another thread forgot about this one, my sound was isolated to the steering column assembly as they could hear the sound from the outside too slowly going over speed bumps. My car is getting serviced right now under warranty with a new steering column, pick up next week will report back but that's where my sound comes from -

This fix did not solve my creeks...tech is narrowing in but definitely going to tell them to do same as above with the retorqued bolts, fingers crossed!

 

[JDR]

Hi y'all,

Rattle update - finally! After 10 weeks in the shop (not including the original 3 weeks for the first repair attempt) I have the car back. The issue was 4 torn rubber stand off grommets used to retain the horizontal dash under the windshield. The dealer thinks they were torn during installation of the dash. Now that the offending noise is resolved I can now hear all the other lesser creaks, rattles and symphonic collection of sounds that are 'part of the experience' and aren't as annoying. I have to assume that the delay was getting the part from UK to the USA and not a dealer issue. I am happy to have it back but...13 weeks to diagnose and fix should not be "part of the experience!!! Note to Lotus, QA/QC (quality assurance and quality control) program will save you $ in the long run, I can only imagine the cost to fix my car vs some line inspection during assembly that would pay for itself many time over and the outcome would be customer satisfaction which pays massive dividends. I love the car, the experience of repair - not so much!