Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone has a cost effective way to stop the random vibrations from the loud bass in my Pat? I have the Premium sound group and I'm a drummer so bass is a must have when i listen to music. I happens the most in the both front doors and the passenger side rear door while the windows are up if that makes a difference.
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Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone has a cost effective way to stop the random vibrations from the loud bass in my Pat? I have the Premium sound group and I'm a drummer so bass is a must have when i listen to music. I happens the most in the both front doors and the passenger side rear door while the windows are up if that makes a difference.
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Are you talking about the panels of the vehicle are vibrating or the speakers?
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I think I know the noise you're talking about. I actually don't have the premium system, just the standard radio package. When listening to music loudly with a lot of bass it sounds almost as if my speakers are blown. On a few occasions I have used the Fade and Ballance options to play music through one speaker at a time and found that they are all fine, none of the normal "static" sound you get from a blown speaker. "Random vibration" is about as good as I could describe it also. I think it is due to the cavernous hollow plastic that makes up the interior panel of the door.
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I am pretty sure it's just the doors.... I mean honestly I love my Patriot, but I worked as a valet parking attendant for 3 years and I've driven every comparable small SUV and the Patriot/Compass/Caliber have by far the cheapest feeling/looking interiors on the market. I bought my Patriot in spite of this, but I will not deny it lol.
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oh, c'mon... it gives it character. A ruggedness that those other little utes don't have. If you can rest your elbows on a patriot interior, then you can rest your elbows ANYWHERE, LOL!
Mines good so far *knocks on wood*, but I've had it happen in other cars. Find a good bass song, put it on repeat and crawl around the car listening to the panels. See if you can find EXACTLY where the sound is coming from. If it's a seam between 2 pieces, you may be able to move it around, stick a piece of rubber in there, seal it, something to rig it so that it stops vibrating.
That would be my first thing to try.
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oh .. and speaking of the cheap interiors, I was at the Dr.'s office the other day. Found an Auto Magazine and there was an article about the Chrysler comeback. One of the Fiat guys got inside one of the cars and immediately said the interior was horrible. He said add about $100 to EACH cars interior (the difference between a corvette and a porche is only $45... so that's actually a BIG difference)...
anyway... hence the newer patriot interior?
anyway... hence the newer patriot interior?
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Yeah...I wanted to no frills, now I am feeling lucky I am not sitting on a milk crate. Though it sometimes feels like I am. 
I have the same problem. All speaker on in back make noise like the plastic is loose.
And passanger door makes a whistle like some game stuck in the seats.
The only way to make it stop is to unplug the speaker. What bad is it was reall hot yesterday and when I got into the car, before I ever even got my key out the passanger door speaker was making the whistle noise. Before long I am going to have to get an Ipod to listen to.
And passanger door makes a whistle like some game stuck in the seats.
The only way to make it stop is to unplug the speaker. What bad is it was reall hot yesterday and when I got into the car, before I ever even got my key out the passanger door speaker was making the whistle noise. Before long I am going to have to get an Ipod to listen to.
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Lol I agree, like I said, I realized this when I purchased it, but I liked the Patriot overall so I bought it anyways. I've been in some of the newer Chryslers and they are getting better.
My speaker vibration isn't as serious as others here seem to be, mine just seems to vibrate alot when heavy bass music is loud. It's pretty annoying but not enough to make me start tearing off door panels the fix it! It's one of those "character" things lol
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After I upgraded my stock, base stereo with the Kicker upgrades, I have a LOT more bass response than before, and I started hearing vibrations in the door panels too. It's actually not that bad though. It only seems to happen when just the right frequency is present in the music. I forget which song it was, but something came on one of the classic rock stations last week that had an organ part in it that just kept hitting the perfect tones to make my passenger door vibrate REAL annoyingly.
If I cared enough to deal with it? I'd put some dynamat (or actually, probably a clone or knock-off of the real Dynamat material since that stuff is expensive!) in the door panels. It really does put a stop to that noise, and will make your doors feel more solid than they really are too.
After I upgraded my stock, base stereo with the Kicker upgrades, I have a LOT more bass response than before, and I started hearing vibrations in the door panels too. It's actually not that bad though. It only seems to happen when just the right frequency is present in the music. I forget which song it was, but something came on one of the classic rock stations last week that had an organ part in it that just kept hitting the perfect tones to make my passenger door vibrate REAL annoyingly.
If I cared enough to deal with it? I'd put some dynamat (or actually, probably a clone or knock-off of the real Dynamat material since that stuff is expensive!) in the door panels. It really does put a stop to that noise, and will make your doors feel more solid than they really are too.
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The vibrating is actually the glass window panels themselves. Unsure why but they dont seem to get a seal that holds it in place.
Wind the window down a smidge & it'll stop the vibrating knocking sound, but as a result you get wind noise.
I'd say the soultion is to get a small furring channel down the bottom of the window near the seal. Should be enought to hold the glass in place tightly when closed up. Might be a lil pain in the arse, but would solve your problem & would be a similar scenario to if you were to use sound deadening material in the doors anyway
Wind the window down a smidge & it'll stop the vibrating knocking sound, but as a result you get wind noise.
I'd say the soultion is to get a small furring channel down the bottom of the window near the seal. Should be enought to hold the glass in place tightly when closed up. Might be a lil pain in the arse, but would solve your problem & would be a similar scenario to if you were to use sound deadening material in the doors anyway
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I think Perth is right. I just completed my system upgrade (hence the 8 month distance in response) and am having a lot of issues in my cargo area - primarily from the back hatch.
I sound proofed inside the rear gate which has helped with vibrating the license plate, but something else is rattling and I think it is the glass. it is driving me nuts because its by far the most pertinent noise. My kicker door speakers are fine - no rattle, just when my bass hits from my subs is when I get vibrations in the cargo area.
Wondering if anyone has found any solutions to this or theories as to what it is.
I sound proofed inside the rear gate which has helped with vibrating the license plate, but something else is rattling and I think it is the glass. it is driving me nuts because its by far the most pertinent noise. My kicker door speakers are fine - no rattle, just when my bass hits from my subs is when I get vibrations in the cargo area.
Wondering if anyone has found any solutions to this or theories as to what it is.
Apologize for the disturbance but based on my experience, this has something to do with the with some kind of damped mass spring arrangement optimised to prevent the most troubling and annoying frequencies and vibrations. you can use a foam pad as your option. On the other hand, you can have the speakers with the wires fixed on them and have stable and compact box.
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The foam padding he's referring to is called dynomat
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Since I replaced the standard speakers for JBL GTO's my doors are fibrating too.
I took the doorpanels off, just the small part, and filled the inside of the doors with some noisereductionfoom (against the doormetal) but that became sooking wet! Don't want rusty doors!!
I removed it and searched for the fibrating-part.
Found it!!!!
On the bottom of the door there is a sort of plastic filling, yellow colour. That 'thing' couses that horrible sound!
I putted some plastic foom between de yellow thing en the innerdoorpanel.
Problem solved!
I hope this is a solution for some more Jeepers with the hunger for Bass!
(excuses for my bad English..)
I took the doorpanels off, just the small part, and filled the inside of the doors with some noisereductionfoom (against the doormetal) but that became sooking wet! Don't want rusty doors!!
I removed it and searched for the fibrating-part.
Found it!!!!
On the bottom of the door there is a sort of plastic filling, yellow colour. That 'thing' couses that horrible sound!
I putted some plastic foom between de yellow thing en the innerdoorpanel.
Problem solved!
I hope this is a solution for some more Jeepers with the hunger for Bass!
(excuses for my bad English..
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Hey Wilfred, I'm trying to remove the rear door panels but they won't cooperate. Can you tell me how you went about removing them?Since I replaced the standard speakers for JBL GTO's my doors are fibrating too.
I took the doorpanels off, just the small part, and filled the inside of the doors with some noisereductionfoom (against the doormetal) but that became sooking wet! Don't want rusty doors!!
I removed it and searched for the fibrating-part.
Found it!!!!
On the bottom of the door there is a sort of plastic filling, yellow colour. That 'thing' couses that horrible sound!
I putted some plastic foom between de yellow thing en the innerdoorpanel.
Problem solved!
I hope this is a solution for some more Jeepers with the hunger for Bass!
(excuses for my bad English..
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First you have to remove the torx-screw (TX-20) in the handrest.
Then I used a plastic spatula to put it in the side to pop this a little bit open,
the rest you can do with your fingers en pull. Go all the way round.
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I've had this problem too. Discovered the cause - vibration of the door release at the top of the plastic trim. Solution = pop a rubber grommet over the door release.
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