Engine cover rattle and engine cough

**Hursty103** · 14th May 2012, 22:28

I have an 08 Vectra Est 1.9cdti 120. The engine cover is ratteling and have been quoted £24 for the rubber grommets. Any other ideas.

Also I wa driving home the engine temp was at 90, i put it in to second and there was what i can only describe as a cough, wher the engine missed a beat and the carried on. When I got to the lights it sounded like the engine was pulsing.

Kind Regards

**barney490** · 14th May 2012, 22:34

I see from your profile that you have an estate car, could be it was performing a regen, did your instant consupmtion go through the roof too?

Those grommets are expensive and as far as i know can only be got from the dealers, they come with new brass ferrules too. Anybody found a work around for these yet?

**Hursty103** · 15th May 2012, 11:23

I didn't notice the fuel consumption.

Would just undoing the screws at the fron of the engine cover and putting a couple of large washers do the trick for the rattle?

**LJ sxi-nav** · 15th May 2012, 12:22

I've had the engine cover off my 120 for months now, as it wore away the holes so they were larger than the size of the grommets! I did have a temp repair using washers stuck to the underside of the engine cover and this worked well until I next took the cover off and lost the washers!... haven't got round to replacing yet, but at least there is no rattle!