Here is a short video showing you one way to fix a rattling heat shield. Remember jack your car up safely and secure it on stands. Also if you are not sure what you are drilling into...DON'T DRILL! Seek professional help. Sure would be a shame to ruin a wiring harness, or drill through your gas tank. Any how, hope this gives you an idea to use. Thanks for watching!
Rubbish, what a terrible mechanic, who can lift there car that high.
I prefer to use plastic washers for the heat shields. Stops the galvanic corrosion from getting any worse. And may sound cheap but I typically just use old bottle caps, center drill 1/4" hole. If original nut can be removed, have the inside surface of the cap facing outwards. If too rusted to remove nut, but with enough thread protruding from the stud, flip the cap over and then 2x nut it. Repaired countless vehicles with way over the years. Never had a comeback.
I have a Toyota venza, quick question please, if my fell off, am I at a risk of damaging something under the car? Or take it to the shop? I don't have the tool you used. What's the name please?
I have a 2007 ford edge awd just replaced ptu . I have 1 heat shield left over .I have no ideal where it goes. If you could do a video on all heat shields placements .I would be grateful for it . Thank you if you do.
Would a rusted heat shield sound similar ? Mine makes a jingle very very clearly at 1500 RPMs but my tail pipe and muffler rusted off, wondering if it’s the heat shield or not, if I get an exhaust installed will they tighten the heat shield if hard ware is just loose?
On my old Ford Focus I just yanked em out
Good video. Loved how you advised to watch wires and also drilling into the floor. Good attention to detail.
The noise it makes it driving me crazy
This was so annoying
Easy peazy
Ear Protection. Please. Old Carpenters, Mechanics, etc will tell you. In Sign Language, of course. BC they can't hear anymore LOL. Nice Fix.
Since I physically can't crawl under a vehicle anymore, it's the Shop Option for me. Good video for others to know. Thank you.
Thanks for the tip just fixed mine with self tapping screws 👍👍
Rip that shit out
Finally got my rivet gun. A day ago. The fix was simple and easy. I'm glad I saw your video. Thanks man for you video.
Only the Toyotas I’ve owned have had this issue and it wasn’t with the old ones (like 1980s). Toyota started making the THINNEST shields, like Pepsi-can thin. Toyota needs to thicken that section (at each bolt hole) or use a very large washer under bolt head. That’s what I did after the heat shield fell off the bolt (bolt remained). If you hear metal rattling at a stop light idle and put car in neutral and it goes away, then this is most likely the culprit. In your driveway or other safe area, with car running, looking under car, you’ll see exactly where the sound comes from.
Yep. Had the exact same shield come loose on a 2012 Toyota Corolla S.
It was vibrating at start up. Then got down the road about 60 mph. It sounded like an animal stuck under car an trying like he k to get out. Quiet now. Take it to a shop if you ain't thin enough to slide under car.
What brand is your rivet tool?
They keep on breaking in canada winters and they are so thin i just toke em off
At mechanic now for this lol
Was driving around pulling my hair out trying to figure out what the tapping was smh
Thx player
How is it that a rust belt vehicle is so clean? Is that putty tape I'm seeing on quarter panel?
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I thought this noise was my transmission grinding. I got scared lol
What could happen when i dont have this shield ? I lost it on a highway, car seems completely ok wo it.
I have three funky looking fasteners that are loose. I can get them finger tight, but I know there is a tool for this. Help?
Thank you good sir
Thanks brother!! This is exactly what my Nissan Micra SV is doing! Appreciate the visual video.
Lol this unfortunately won’t help my issue. There are two little flaps closer to the exhaust manifold on either side of the shield that have the bolts….they broke off so I have to replace the whole shield….
Yep, you can do that or you unscrew the original fitting, place the shield back over the original fixing holes and put a mid size metal washer over the heat shield where it has errored and screw back into original hole with original fixing.
… Have you heard about rust? Yeah, good luck with that.
Damn that looks easy!
Heroic
Great advice
The problem is galvanic corrosion, aluminum will always sacrifices itself in contact with steel, I guess using aluminum rivets will help since it will become the sacrificial anode.
I've seen increasingly larger steel washers eating away at the aluminum lol
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My heat shield is so thin i put a rivet and it tore through in in a few months
For the heat shields that are two pieces (above and below the pipe) a quick fix is to just use a large hose clamp wrapped all around the shields. It's a lot faster If you need to remove it and it usually lasts a couple of years although it does not look real professional.
Thanks, hit a nasty pothole and will do this the weekend!!
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What kind of tool is that looks like a stapler??