Flexible Leon

[LWCARAB]

I'm starting to think that my Leon flexes a fair bit, each morning when I drive it up out of my underground parking the side panels creak very loudly and they rattle more and more now during normal driving, I also now have a noisy seat, every time I use the clutch I get a creak noise from the side of the seat, annoying.

 

[phil3012]

I had similar sounds with my Leon, I thoughts as well that it sounded like the car might be flexing.

In the end I traced it to a problem with the front windows. If I wound them down by even a few mm the sound stopped.

Took it to my SEAT dealer and they spent a day looking at the problems.

In the end they removed both door panels and adjusted the regulators on the electric windows.

Worked a treat, still have a intremittent rattle from the air vents that they couldn't trace, but the car is 1000 times better than before.

 

[LWCARAB]

Exactly the same problem here.
Might have to take it in then, though I'm not sure if I can be bothered before it's first service which is approaching faster than I thought.

 

[DanGB]

my windows creak when I go over really unevens surfaces ie; a big ramp like yours.

I can recreate the noise by pushing the tops of the windows whhere the seals are when im outside the car.

 

[phil3012]

The garage said that my windows were hitting the seals which was causing the problem.

Mine was all the time as I live on a new housing estate where they haven't laid the final road surface yet, so the car bounces about all the time.

It was so bad that I couldn't live with it, but thankfully sorted now.

 

[wolkanku]

my windows creak when I go over really unevens surfaces ie; a big ramp like yours.

I can recreate the noise by pushing the tops of the windows whhere the seals are when im outside the car.

dan that's exactly the point...i got e temporary resolution...
i wd-40 that area , both the plastics and both the upper section of the car thah connects with those plastics...
i hear no sound for about 3-4 weeks

 

[Tam]

I get the window thing, and also the creaky seat.