Rolling Object in Dash - Driving me insane!

Check the door keeper, dont know what its proper name is, but the arm that stops the door from opening too far. On my RR the nylon guide in the door had broken allowing the steel arm to flop around, drove me mad, got under the dash, zip tied everything in sight etc then weeks later, noticed the guide was missing, wrapped the arm in electrical tape, sound gone.

Ryall

Had another poke around - underneath this time. Looks like there may be a “ball bearing” looking piece of gravel rolling around on the upper side of the engine undertray - no doubt collected from adventures off road! No idea if that’s my noise .... so, is the undertray simple enough to drop, by undoing its fairly obvious bolts?

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Originally Posted by Jimlr

Had another poke around - underneath this time. Looks like there may be a “ball bearing” looking piece of gravel rolling around on the upper side of the engine undertray - no doubt collected from adventures off road! No idea if that’s my noise .... so, is the undertray simple enough to drop, by undoing its fairly obvious bolts?

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I highly doubt you’d hear that in the cabin however yes, easy to undo

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Originally Posted by Jimlr

It’s not just you ... similar noise from glovebox area ... more of a marble clunking against something, like hitting the air con ducts back there ... annoying as ...

reluctant to disassemble the entire glovebox any further as I believe it’s not an easy bolt in/bolt out job....??

Have sheathed many wits and cables in the engine bay/scuttle area - culprits could have been UHF or double battery wiring ... to no avail.

LR had a look a said it was something outside or underneath , but really didn’t fix anything.

Other ideas?

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This one describes mine well. It's near the glovebox, and it sounds like a marble. It rolls a very short distance, let's argue a few centimetres (as I can't see it). I will hear the noise if I turn sharp left, or right, like veering around an animal, or if I turn corners as the turn starts. I sometimes hear it if I brake aggressively, or accelerate aggressively. I think it may be in the vents... grrr.

No coins in ashtray, or earrings ... in fact I had the whole centre console in my house and took it for a short drive. I could still hear it! (For those that did read this far, I had the PRNDS control sitting on the passenger seat).

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Originally Posted by TDV6

Check the door keeper, dont know what its proper name is, but the arm that stops the door from opening too far. On my RR the nylon guide in the door had broken allowing the steel arm to flop around, drove me mad, got under the dash, zip tied everything in sight etc then weeks later, noticed the guide was missing, wrapped the arm in electrical tape, sound gone.

Ryall

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Ryall I'm going to check that out right now!

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Originally Posted by JimN

I had a similar thing with my 2016 D4. It turned out to be the coins in the tray below the radio. Sorry if this sound condesending, it is just that i had the same problem and it took me ages to realise it was this simple. I wish somebody had suggested it to me. My wife and i put up with it for 2 weeks while touring before we stumbled upon it.

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As I had had this issue in a 2nd hand vehicle in the past, it was actually the first thing I checked. Sadly, my D4 ashtray/coin holder thing is as shiny as new. Nothin' it it :)