Speaker rattles

[Beecher]

The speakers in my 2003 Turbo are driving me nuts! There are four of the oval ones, two in the dash and two by the rear seats. They all rattle! They make a high pitched chirping sound when driving over city streets. No stereo playing, just sitting there. I have the two rears out right now and am making sound deadening gaskets for them. Any suggestions? Does anyone else have this problem and how did you solve it? I am amazed that Porsche bolts a hard plastic speaker grille to a hard plastic insert and thinks that it won't make noise. The thing looks like it was designed to rattle! :soapbox: I'm glad the big stuff is well engineered, but the little stuff makes me wonder... :o

[J9000]

Speakers are quite easy to be taken out and replaced. I replaced my NOKIA paper cones with Focus speakers. Probably your paper cones are starting to show their age. Two screws are used to hold those speakers in place. I will just take them out to find out what's going on. Or you local car stereo store can replace them.

[Beecher]

:lol: Some progress on the rattles squeaks! I found that a major source of noise is the speaker screws rubbing in the hard plastic that they screw into. I coated the screws with Door-Eze (soap would probably work too) and the squeaks are gone in three of the speakers. The right rear still rattles a little, but it is much better. I'm going to try a block of foam between the air duct and the back of the speaker panel.