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[vintagegz]

Just bought a base Vibe automatic with the power group last week ( in moonstone), traded my Saturn Vue V6, the plastic door panels were cracking and falling off. My question, when shifting from drive to reverse, does anyone experience a 'clank' noise under the car. mine does it each time, just wondering if it is a characteristic of the car. Otherwise it is great, no complaints.

[ArcsVibe]

First of all welcome to genvibe fellow Canuck! Great to see another Canadian on board I my self have not experienced this. Is your car new, used? Also we love pics here!!Welcome again!

[vintagegz]

new car, 100 kms on it today. Thanks for the welcome, no digital camera so no pix, sorry.

[BlueCrush]

Welcome to GenVibe!I don't recall ever having to shift from drive to reverse. I shift from reverse to drive everyday and have not heard a clank in 20,000mi while doing that.

[Mavrik]

I have encountered this before when the 04 models came out. I worked for a GM dealership in service at the time and a fellow brought his in with that very concern. We inspected the linkage at the transmission and even put a call through to techline. If I can remember correctly there was nothing wrong with his car that we could fix at the time. Of course this was back in 2004. It now being 2006 I would suggest maybe just having someone in service take a listen to it in the parkinglot.You may have nothing to worry about.

[vintagegz]

thanks for the inputs.It may be the exhaust system, it is very loosely mounted under the car, probably flexes a bit. Thanks again

[northvibe]

I think mine just lurches a little, when sometimes I thought I heard a clunk, but when I had the dealer look it over it was "standard suspension noise" and I havent heard it since.