Okay so I had my girlfriend drive with me and the sound was absolutely gone so it has to be that same issue everyone is having. I’m going to my brother’s house for Christmas, he has a 3D printer and I already sent him the model file so he’s gonna print 3-4 of them with different thinness levels. Will keep the group updated
I wonder if something like this would work?This particular rattle, yes. If you bang on the seat about where your shoulders are you'll hear it. Same for if you bang on the seat from the side (like shoulder height above the center console)
I was bored, so here's my temporary fix. I tried a piece of foam underneath, but turns out it's primarily the sides of the rails that are making contact.
Ordinary tacklebox tray divider -
Trimmed off the protrusions that lock it into the tray because they were too thick, and wedged the damn thing into the back of the seat rail.
About as ghetto a fix I've ever seen but I just tested and it eliminated the sound.
Now, since this thing is just kinda stuck in there and not attached to anything, if you move your seat around a lot it will almost certainly work its way out after a bit.
And remember kids shoving bits of plastic into your seat rails should only be done at your own risk.
Hopefully someone can come up with a more elegant solution eventually.
Yep welcome to the club. I’m going to the dealer on Monday at 9but I have no hopes of them fixing it. The tackle box thing didn’t work for me unfortunately but I might be doing it wrong. I was able to order the 3D printed piece at a website called Xometry but I haven’t gotten it yet. Putting the seat all the way low helps get rid of 95% of the noise so that’s a plus. I tried bunch of foam and rubber strips I bought from Home Depot but nothing worked yet
Don’t worry, you areSo glad I found this discussion,
Thought I was loosing my mind
I ended up having the seat track replaced on my '22 Badlands 4door.
Idk if it's that specific bolt, but there is a recall out for a seat bolt coming out.Google brought me here after searching about the wonderful passenger seat rattle I was experiencing. I read this entire thread and decided to try the 3d printed part as the seat track having some looseness seemed like the problem I was having. I could push against the side of the passenger seat back and get the noise to stop while driving. Unfortunately, the 3d printed part did not work for me, pushing against the seat while standing outside the passenger door still had the seat making the noise. I could even get it to happen while gently pushing against the side of the seat back so I stuck my hand under the seat to feel for play or something loose.
When I pushed on the seat I could feel the seat moving around this bolt. I got out my torx sockets and tried tightening the bolt. It turns out it's left hand threaded, but tightening it did not fix the rattle. I removed the bolt to see if there was a damaged bushing or something in there since it looks like this is part of the mechanism to raise and lower the seat and needs to pivot on that bolt. There was no bushing but the bolt does have a plastic washer. I decided to try adding something to allow me to tighten the bolt further. I ended up taking a 7/8" rubber grommet and cutting it in half, ensuring the cut side was smooth.
I put the cut in half grommet around the shoulder of the bolt, up against the plastic washer and added a drop of blue loctite to the threads. I then lifted the back of the seat to align the holes and reinstalled the bolt making sure I could feel the end of the bolt come through the threaded hole all the way.
I just completed a nice long drive over a few sets of railroad tracks and I'm happy to say there's no more rattling coming from my passenger seat. Hopefully this will help someone else out with the annoying rattle!
