Getting an annoying whistling noise from drivers door.Think it may be seal.Any TSB? Dealer sais no.Thanks for any help.

 

Me Too!!!!! Whats the deal with that?

 

I only get mine whistling when I have a cross wind from the passenger side.. but still pretty bloody annoying

 

I know your pain. My door was soo bad that I would get sprayed by water coming in.... Long story short, take it to a respectable body shop and have them align the doors. If its still underwarranty, and a local dealer has a body shop, politely ride them until they have the doors adjusted at no cost.

I spent $0.00 and haven't had a single wind noise problem in well over a year. The guy that did my doors works for the dealer and said its way too common of a problem with the trucks and does them regularly.

Mike

 

So far, the dealer has replace my 04 door seals twice. Even told me there was a TB on it.

 

Same problem with mine. The weather stripping on these trucks are absolutly terrible.

 

times that by two

 

there was a tsb for the earlier trucks but it was for tearing seals not noisy had mine done I still get the noise from crosswind

 

mine only does it when i have another window cracked open. drives me nuts, i just turn the radio up louder.. lol

 

My drivers door has a whistle when the AC fan is blowing on high. Doesn't do it on any other setting. Annoys the crap out of me and really the only thing wrong with my truck. Knock on wood. I feel lucky when I see some of the major problems other people have had. I can live with it

 

No noise from my '08 as of yet, but the passenger door in my '03 has always been noisy. It doen't matter which way the wind is blowing. I just pretend I'm watching football, then tune it and my girl out....

 

I"m not trying to preach to all of you, but have a good body shop man at least give a shot a aligning your doors, you’ll be so glad you did! I’m not trying to promote body shops as I’ve never worked in one or are personal friends with anyone in the business.

You can get the TSB for the new seals done 100 times and its still not going to help when the top of the door is just barely making any contact with the seal like most of them do.

The next time you're sitting inside your truck with the door closed, take your smallest finger and try to work it past the rubber door seal on the door about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way down its forward edge. (The side that slopes downwards towards the front of the truck.) Unless you have tiny fingers you should only be able to just barely get your finger wedged into the seal. If you can get it any further, no matter what seals you throw at it, they're not going to do anything for you and they'll need to be aligned/tweaked.

This same thing goes for the area at the top rear corner of the door, but you should be able to get you're finger a slight bit further mushed into the seal.

The thing to remember about these doors is that they have a great deal of flex to them. I'm not sure if they were purposely made that way to handle the flexing of the body and frame under load and various terrains or just because they were made cheap and flimsy.

If the doors are not properly and snugly aligned with the seals that are designed to mate with the doors at a specific point, you're going to get lots of wind noise and even water penetration. This problem is compounded when traveling at highway or near highway speeds as the wind flow over and around the truck tries to pull the doors open. If you have your AC/Defrost/Heater on it also aids this by creating a slightly positive pressure inside the cab. (The cab vents don't prevent pressurization of the cab as well as they should, hence the post that mentioned the whistling doors with the fan on high.) The problem also rears its ugly head in cross winds. This is caused when the wind blows crosswise across the truck and forces air in at the seal near the windshield, as there is a ridge there caused by the design of the door extending beyond the windshield. It again also can cause a pressure difference between the inside and outside of the cab, helping the doors be pushed out. The pressure difference normally isn’t a big factor till you look at how large the doors on these trucks are.

All this comes after a few very lengthy discussions with the body shop that fixed my doors. I guess I could ramble on even more about the various effects that the doors must contend with while still making a good seal, but I figured I would be better prepared if I went and put my flame suit on so everyone else could share their inputs. I know there area some people on here with aeronautic backgrounds that could better describe the effects I was trying to get into words above.

Mike

 

I took my truck in for the recall today and noted to them about a good deal of wind noise as all have described here. They said it would probably need to go the body shop and hence stay at least over night. I was in agreement with no problem as I had read this last night... I really tend to agree. It just seems that the doors fit the body so well everywhere else that I hope they don't jack that up... I know the seals don't seal because not only noise but there is a lot of dust that worked past the seals. The seals look great too and this truck is brand new.

 

I replaced my weatherstrip with the 07 type, helped some. Running fan on hi blowing in outside air while on fwy is the worst.

 

I will have to take min in then too. I picked up my 03 a couple of weeks ago and I can barely hear my wife when going over 60mph due to all of the noise from the DS door.