I bought a Honda Civic Type-R a few months back, 2005 plate A/C Anniversary edition, it has 84,000 miles currently clocked up on it. However, problem is, when I'm in 3rd or 4th gear, if I put my footdown hard the car makes a loud rattling/vibration noise coming from undernearth the car somewhere. It's been into Honda specialist garages etc and they can't find any problems with the car, the car runs perfect and smooth other than this noise? It might seem minor to some but for me it ruins the sound of the cars engine.

Anyone have any ideas or similar experiences? Will try and explain it better if needed.

Cheers

 

I would start by checking exhaust heat shields and motor mounts. Can you SAFELY make a video or record the sound?

 

Will give the heatshield etc a check this weekend hopefully if I get a chance. Yeah i'll try and get a recording of the noise to help better understand exactly what I'm talking about.

Cheers

 

The heatshield on the manifold is a fairly common issue with the civics