creak over bumps

Bottom line first: Penetrating oil permanently solves creaking noises emanating between the body panels.

Just wanted to report that I had creaking sound coming from the passenger side A pillar. It slowly developed over the last few years and I decided to solve this myself since I was was out of comprehensive warranty.

The previous comments about penetrating oil braking up slag are erroneous as far as I am concerned. What solved my issue was penetrating oil in the pinch weld. Here is how I applied the oil.



The noise was gone in about 1 hour and appears completely gone 12 hours later. The noise was never as bad as the drivers side which creaked from day one off the dealer lot.

The bottom line is my truck is now completely silent when the door is opened or weight is applied to the door sill.

If you do this put down some cardboard to collect the oil as it will drip from the pinch weld. It took me about 45 minutes to complete this job by myself. I took my time studying the body panels on the truck.

 

Just wanted to add into the Internet record here, that the creaking noise on either side of my truck has never returned after the one-time application of the penetrating oil.

 

Nice. I'm going to try this.

 

I need to try this on my passenger side.

 

just tried this on my '14 trd off road.

will report back with results.

 

down by the pinch weld there are rubber grommets which when removed allow access to spray penetrating oil.

i removed these grommed, sprayed the oil along the pinch weld replaced them.... seems like it takes some driving around after ward to have the oil work its way in, but looks like it worked! the creak is almost nonexistent.

 

^So glad to hear that someone else got relief from truck creek noise.

Mine is still good, and I'm very happy.

 

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subd for later, just in case

 

i have a 2012 trd off road with 68k miles

maybe this is what im chasing. i tried the hood rubber stopper adjustment, spraying silicone on control arms and still nothing elimates my noise

any specific pentrating oil? what is the rubber piece that is spoken of?