car door creaks when opening and closing

#Car door creaks when opening and closing driver#

It would seem that GM needs to install/replace with thicker trim and/or moulding in those areas and solve this expanding issue.Īnd all of these complaints have only showed up once the weather became warm and hot now, leading to the belief that the door frame, moulding and/or weather stripping is expanding or twisting now with the heat.

When the window was rolled up, putting pressure on those two devices and pushing on the trim (expanding it a bit now), I was able to cut the offending creaking down to near minimal levels. I even tried placing some plastic straws and wooden chopsticks in the window channel, in the upper trim pieces. It is not the door panel making the noise or other part of the door, it's the upper window trim and stripping. When inside, you can push/pull the plastic corner trim in the window corner (upper left for driver, upper right for passenger) and recreate the sound. I narrowed it down to the window trim and weatherstripping along the top of the window and running down to the sideview mirror, that area.Īs another member wrote, it literally sounds like an old creaking and moaning wooden boat now.Įither inside or outside of the vehicle, you can recreate the sound by pushing/pulling on the chrome window trim at the top and hear it making noises.

#Car door creaks when opening and closing driver#

On my 2018 High Country, it's the front driver and passenger doors, with the driver's (of course.) being the worst culprit.