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GreekGod
07-31-2005, 03:01 PM
My '03 MM has had a squeek (from the front end?) since I purchased it used with 13,000 miles. It is most noticable 35-45 MPH. Any ideas?

mailman
07-31-2005, 03:17 PM
The most common is the hood. I kept hearing a squeek and was thinking front end and ended up just needing to adjust the rubber stops on the hood.

BillyGman
07-31-2005, 03:23 PM
My '03 MM has had a squeek (from the front end?) since I purchased it used with 13,000 miles. It is most noticable 35-45 MPH. Any ideas?yep, it's almost always the height adjustment bumpers under the hood(the ones with those white plastic hex heads on top). With your hood shut and latched, try pushing down hard and quickly on your hood to see if you can get any verticle movement or play. if you do, then that's likely where the squeek is coming from. it happens to many of us.

Simply set the adjusters to a height that prevents the hood from being moved up and down while it's closed. if you have to set the height adjusters so low that the hood doesn't line-up well with the nose piece that houses the grill, then you'll need to also loosen the bolts on the hoos latch assembly and adjust that too(that's what I did). The bolt holes are slotted.;)

Once I got mine where they needed to be, I backed both of them off 4 turns, and applied blue loc-tite to the threads, and then screwed them back in 4 turns so that they will not walk. Oh BTW, another sure sign of your hoos height adjusters being in the wrong height is when you drive down the highway on a sunny day after you just washed your car, and you can see the middle of your hood flexing and dancing around at 70 MPH. My hood did that until I adjusted those hood height bumpers, and it hasn't done that since. It also hasn't squeeked since then like it used to.

GreekGod
07-31-2005, 05:52 PM
Thanks for the detailed 'splanation. I worked in a Ford dealer's bodyshop for 4 years and I knew the first place to check was the hood bumpers 'cause that's exactly the sound I thought it was. :confused: I'm sure it's something simple like that. :confused: I'm going to have to get my neighbor to bounce the frontend while i snoop around unless someone else has any other ideas. :help: While underneath the front bumper I noticed a lot of dings in the A/C condenser. :eek: We definitely need a screen to block road debris from striking the core. I imagine rural MM owners who drive on gravel roads have already discovered that. :bigcry: Suppose Ford has a optional 'off road'/Police retrofit screen? It could have been standard on the 2005 5.4 Litre/400 hp Supercharged 'Pikes Peak Marauder'! Imagine the press response to such a model! Imagine the the teevee commercials with someone like Danica Patrick :bows: driving one up Pikes Peak & throwing a rooster tail! :burnout: It would have aired before the Indy race where she did so well. Ford/Mercury NEEDS an idea man like me! Danica needs me too! Maybe she will read this post and email me looking for a date. It could happen. No? :down:
yep, it's almost always the height adjustment bumpers under the hood(the ones with those white plastic hex heads on top). With your hood shut and latched, try pushing down hard and quickly on your hood to see if you can get any verticle movement or play. if you do, then that's likely where the squeek is coming from. it happens to many of us.

Simply set the adjusters to a height that prevents the hood from being moved up and down while it's closed. if you have to set the height adjusters so low that the hood doesn't line-up well with the nose piece that houses the grill, then you'll need to also loosen the bolts on the hoos latch assembly and adjust that too(that's what I did). The bolt holes are slotted.;)

Once I got mine where they needed to be, I backed both of them off 4 turns, and applied blue loc-tite to the threads, and then screwed them back in 4 turns so that they will not walk. Oh BTW, another sure sign of your hoos height adjusters being in the wrong height is when you drive down the highway on a sunny day after you just washed your car, and you can see the middle of your hood flexing and dancing around at 70 MPH. My hood did that until I adjusted those hood height bumpers, and it hasn't done that since. It also hasn't squeeked since then like it used to.

BillyGman
07-31-2005, 06:10 PM
I think you might have misunderstood my explanation a little bit.If you can get the hood to move while pushing down on it real hard when it's a closed, then that's what may be causing the squeek while you're driving it even if the squeek isn't heard while the car is standing still and you're pushing down on the hood. I couldn't hear the squeeking noise either while I was pushing down on the hood and watching it move up and down while I did that, but when I drove through the condo parking lot where I live, I'd hear it squeeking all over the place. And as soon as I fixed the hood to prevent it from being moved up and down while it was closed, the squeeks were no longer present while the car was moving either. But if your hood is rock solid even when you push down hard on it, and you aren't getting any vertical movement out of it when it's closed, then perhaps that isn't the problem.

GreekGod
07-31-2005, 07:11 PM
I may try some vaseline on those bumpers tomorrow. I think the squeek maybe from somewhere lower down because I do hear a squeek when I 'bounce' the left fender, but not the right fender! It seems to be on the left side only.
I think you might have misunderstood my explanation a little bit.If you can get the hood to move while pushing down on it real hard when it's a closed, then that's what may be causing the squeek while you're driving it even if the squeek isn't heard while the car is standing still and you're pushing down on the hood. I couldn't hear the squeeking noise either while I was pushing down on the hood and watching it move up and down while I did that, but when I drove through the condo parking lot where I live, I'd hear it squeeking all over the place. And as soon as I fixed the hood to prevent it from being moved up and down while it was closed, the squeeks were no longer present while the car was moving either. But if your hood is rock solid even when you push down hard on it, and you aren't getting any vertical movement out of it when it's closed, then perhaps that isn't the problem.

Blackened300a
07-31-2005, 09:03 PM
I just posted the other day about that same squeak coming from my MM. I put 1/4" fine thread nuts on the rods and locked them in place. I had my car on the lift going through every suspension rubber I could find trying to duplicate the noise, It wasnt til I got fustrated and slammed the door that I heard the Squeak and traced it to the hood!

Marauderjack
08-01-2005, 03:26 AM
Grease the hood latch and "Catch Bar" on the hood itself. It will eventually wear in and stop all together!!! :o

Every Panther I have owned did this!!! :mad2:

Another gripe I have is the trunk......Open it after washing or a rain storm and it pours water into the trunk!!!! :mad2: :argue: It looks to me that this could be fixed by the Ford Engineers?? :confused:

Marauderjack ;)

AzMarauder
08-01-2005, 05:30 AM
Another gripe I have is the trunk......Open it after washing or a rain storm and it pours water into the trunk!!!! :mad2: :argue: It looks to me that this could be fixed by the Ford Engineers?? :confused:

Marauderjack ;)
Yes but a ducktail Marauder somehow just doesn't look as good as the design we have now ! :rolleyes:

03SILVERSTREAK
08-02-2005, 01:31 PM
Another gripe I have is the trunk......Open it after washing or a rain storm and it pours water into the trunk!!!! :mad2: :argue: It looks to me that this could be fixed by the Ford Engineers?? :confused:

Marauderjack ;)
I might have an idea on that but first I want to try my remedy first. if it works , will post the results...

Bowman9
08-03-2005, 06:02 PM
I too was hearing a squeek while driving, it turned out to be coming from the dashboard.
The dash panel (closest to the windshield) was not set all the way in place.
I just pused down on it till it popped into place. No more squeek.

BillyGman
08-03-2005, 09:50 PM
I too was hearing a squeek while driving, it turned out to be coming from the dashboard.
The dash panel (closest to the windshield) was not set all the way in place.
I just pused down on it till it popped into place. No more squeek.AAAAAAHH, if only everything could be that easy with cars.