Something is rattling inside the wall of my 36' U295. Driver side, behind the driver's window and in front of the wooden wire chase that's behind that window. Where the "X" is shown in the photo, may e a little higher. The noise is coming from inside the wall; I can feel it with my hand while driving. Does anyone have pics of what's inside this wall?
Dont believe anything is in the wall.. That wood piece holds the electrical wires that run down I believe.. Also check your pull down flap on your awning.. Sometimes mine flaps
I have the same issue. The TV antenna seems to have rattle of its own and it is different from the awning pull-down strap flapping around. I've stowed the strap properly and can hear a creaking noise from that location while going down the road. Of course I am too busy driving to track it down 😅
Did you check the cabinet :D
Could be the valance above the window is a little loose.
Yup, TV antenna and awning would be where I would start.
If you have an awning over your driver window, the flap that you pull down to extend the awning could be the culprit. The flap can hit against the fiberglass or window and feel like it is coming from that area!
Of course it has to be inches from your ear while driving! Sounds frustrating. I would agree with others comments.
Expanding foam . . .
It's not the cabinet above; it's not a loose valence; it's not the awning pull-down strap.
To further the mystery, it only happens when we first start driving in the morning, like when we're pulling out of a campground on less-than smooth roads, or maybe rocking and rolling on dirt/gravel road. I can't remember it ever happening when we're on a paved road and moving at 30 mph or more.
I haven't been up on the roof to check the TV antenna wire yet.
Some of those plastic antennas rattle around in the wind or rough roads. I've had to tighten the screws from inside. Also, has some of the wires on my solar panels come looks and slap around in the wind. Needed to be tied down again. Anything slapping the roof sounds loud.
Where is that "X" relative to the mounting points of the driver's window awning ends? When the awning is retracted, is there any play/gap at that end of the tube? Wondering if it could be the awning tube rattling against the side of the coach.
I have a Girard awning with a wind speed sensor on the roof. It took me a long time to figure out that the most annoying rattle that would start at around 30mph was actually that sensor spinning around. The noise was so non-directional that I could not figure out where it was coming from. Through a process of elimination I finally figured it out and now I wrap it with tape prior to a long road trip to keep it from spinning. I would like to replace it with the newer motion sensor that retracts the awning automatically.
One idea: One person drives, the other in the back with a mechanic's stethoscope probing around to try and isolate the source location.
I have to chuckle at this, it's probably irrelevant but a few of my window awning straps would slap against the windows, drove me nuts. Dsd and I were at King Of Hammers and while we were pulling up camp he looks up there and says "I have a fix for that". He took the rod and while allowing the awning to retract he pulled the strap to the side shortening the strap until nothing was hanging out. Talk about feeling stupid! He has a way with that! LOL!!! Jim.
I never thought of doing that. Good tip.
For years I had a large amount of rattle on my roof. I thought it was the cellular antennas today I have one on either side. They're mounted on springs so I just assumed that's where the sound was coming from. One day it occurred to me that it could be the TV antenna too. I think it's a king? When I redid the front cap I removed the wiring to it so it's not powered anymore I don't watch over the air and TV. Inside there's a rotating switch that when turned one way seem to crank down on the antenna a little bit and most of the noise was gone after that.