How To Fix A Rattling Heat Shield 

This is exactly what I needed to know! My car recently started rattling and I realised it was the heat sheild for the exhaust. Now I know how to do this! I can save time from going to the shop. Seems like a simple fix. Thank you!

Did this last night on my daughter's 2009 Corolla. Used the drill and screws method and it is great now. I do wish I had a lift because I only had ramps and it was a bit cramped working under there but it's all good now! Thanks for the video!

Concise, clear, and helpful! Many thanks!

Great video! Thank you! Been listening to mine rattle for far to long and now that I know how easy it is. I am going to get it done by doing it myself!

Larger aluminum washers under the rivet head will provide a bit of stress relief allowing the repair to last longer. Obviously, the additional time/effort for the washers makes sense to those of us doing this ourselves and planning to keep the vehicle until delivered to the scrap yard.

So glad for this video. This just happened to my car and it's same car. Saved me some time getting my car up to figure out how to reattach it. Thank you for making it.

Good video. Loved how you advised to watch wires and also drilling into the floor. Good attention to detail.

My heat shield problem is just like this one you’ve repaired so thank you for the vid and great instruction !

Great idea, thanks for the video. In cases like this, I poke the rivet through a washer first to keep the head of the rivet from working it's way through the hole a little longer. Thanks again and keep up the great work. 😊

Finally got my rivet gun. A day ago. The fix was simple and easy. I'm glad I saw your video. Thanks man for you video.

Thanks for taking the time. Very helpful. Hope my neighbor lets me borrow his rivet tool!

I thought it was my muffler the entire time! We were on the road last night and the car must have hit something on the road and then the rattling noise would not stop. When my husband told me this morning he looked underneath the car and said that was a piece of tin that was leaning to one side, I knew it was the heat shield. Thanks for clarifying it for me! Taking it to the shop to get it fixed this morning.

For something so light it makes an annoying noise . Thanks for the video.

Thanks for this! I did this repair on my 2010 in the driveway today after watching your video.

Mine broke loose when i had to swerve to avoid a head on collision on 4 lane hwy. Car came into my lane but the outside lane was flooded. Water splashing up detached shield and it's just laying on the exhaust pipe. Waiting for rain to clear out so i can fix it. Thanks for the tip!

SMAR wow, your channel has come a long way. I just randomly clicked on this video looking for a "how to" on heat shield repairs. Keep up the good work!

Perfect fix... nice video to clearly show how to repair...

Short, sweet and to the point.

Thank you. Doing it on the same car tomorrow. Was going to remove it but not now once I saw how easy that was.

Looking for a solution - doh and here we have it ! Simple easy effective and already have the tools - many thanks from the UK

Just performed this fix on my 2009 Corolla -- thanks!

You have a lot of great How-To's, is appreciated.... Was looking for ways to re-attach a Honda Fit heat shield this morning.... Thank you

Videos like this save me time and money. I appreciate it. - Thanks

Did this fix, after watching this video, on my 2013 camry. Thanks for the video!

Thanks for the video. Very easy job to do. Very helpful video.

Yay! Thank you!! Saved me lots of time and money just knowing what I'm talking about.

Helpful and free of fluff - much appreciated.

I thought this was going to be a video of you going hog wild ripping the shields off. Then I remembered this is a SMA video and things are done the right way here.

Just had mine come off today.. Too cold up here in Canada to try and do it myself. Thanks for the video

Excellent hack instead of replacing the heat shield, thanks for the video.

Thanks for your help....its good to know it's a fairly simple job

Awesome work!

Since I physically can't crawl under a vehicle anymore, it's the Shop Option for me. Good video for others to know. Thank you.

Absolute life saver- thank you!!

great vid thanks helps alot.. quickly got to the point!

THANK YOU!!!! This video saved me alot of time and money! Dealership wanted 400 dollars for this!!! Crazy right? Thank you I did it myself!

Great video. Thanks for the help.

Another old school serious Mr. O video -- I'm starting to think it's all about the hats. Without a hat there is no sarcasm, just straight forward business from Mr.O. Toss a Jeep on his noggin and the fun starts to flow.

Thanks brother!! This is exactly what my Nissan Micra SV is doing! Appreciate the visual video.

Thank you! Pop rivet was a great idea.

yep had this exact problem - and you nailed it. THANKS!!

Man, I knew it was a loose something or or other. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for the tip just fixed mine with self tapping screws 👍👍

A short video is a good video, thanks.

Awesome idea. Thanks!

Had this problem on my old 91 honda hatchback. Took a shotgun to it and set it on fire. Problem solved.

Just fixed my 03 corolla heatshield. The shield had completely rusted away around 3 out of 3 bolts holding it up. The racket it was making was really unbearable. It would not have occured to me to use pop-rivets before watching this video(i was thinking the shield would have to be patch welded around the bolt holes, and I have zero welding skills). Took just a couple minutes and I can already feel some of my sanity returning with the noise gone now. THANK YOU!!

Thank you for your videos sma tips like this help people like me

Great video - to the point and no fuzz. What kind of rivets will be the best? Aluminum? Stainless? Monel?

I'm going thru this right now with my 2010 prius. Thanks for the video. Hopefully there is a structural support so i can drill a screw thru or a rivet

Thanks for the video. What a life saver..

Perfect! Needed to see this.. Mine is loud , dangly & annoying Good advice & useful information , & doesn't look expensive... Doin this first thing tomorrow morning.. Thank you sir! Grrat vid! 👍🏼 Take care 👋🏼✌🏽

This is short sweet and simple...thank you and i just subbed!

Yes they are annoying mine was still fixed but still vibrating I gave it a few bends to stop it great video good fix

Thank you so much for a great video. God bless

Quick and lasting fix!

Very exact video of problem and clear explanation of remedy .

That was a clean looking under body compared to some of the cars you've worked on.

Man you drill fast in metal! I like to go slow and get the chip going. Maybe I can go faster w hard bits. Thanks for the video👍

This was the first sma video I ever watched. Here we are, years later =)

Wow thank you soon as you shook it I instantly knew it was like mines wow

Thanks for the video.

Oh wow I had someone put JB weld on my Chrysler 300, but it's worn off now. I wanna do this now! Thank you

I've had this problem on my 2001 Astra. They tend to break around the original nuts so what I did was to undo the nuts and put a big washer between the nut and heat shield to hold it in place. I had a couple of them shear off but I still had enough to be able to hold the heat shields in place.

Great advice

Only the Toyotas I’ve owned have had this issue and it wasn’t with the old ones (like 1980s). Toyota started making the THINNEST shields, like Pepsi-can thin. Toyota needs to thicken that section (at each bolt hole) or use a very large washer under bolt head. That’s what I did after the heat shield fell off the bolt (bolt remained). If you hear metal rattling at a stop light idle and put car in neutral and it goes away, then this is most likely the culprit. In your driveway or other safe area, with car running, looking under car, you’ll see exactly where the sound comes from.

I poked holes in mine and tied hose clamps around the muffler. My guess is washers would have been better but one was stripped and I couldnt get it off

you can also take the original screw that rusted thru and just put a big washer on it then put it back in the same place

the legend begins!!!

i love rivets!

heat shields around the manifolds and cat's i try to preserve but anything else i have little issue removing if there is no good way to secure it but usually i can find a spot to throw a couple self tappers

Awesome. Thank you

So the muffler heat shield on my 2007 came loose last weekend... I finally get around to googling for it and lo... this video pops up right at the top. E140 just like this one, looks like it's exactly the same one that's loose on mine. Only trouble is I don't have a nice big lift like that, so we'll have to see how well we can do with the jackstands.

Hi, just to check, are you drilling a particular depth into the body work? Or just creating a hole for the rivet? Thanks

I tuned in for Eric and I found this young fella

That's like the best case scenario situations. Lol! The bottom of my car looks like nothing like that. Lol

Thanks a lot very helpful a lot of nissian altimas haves this problem

thanks! very helpful

Awesome FYI have to take care of this and its that easy.

Here is a easier and faster tip. Heat resistant JB weld over the screw that should still be sticking out that originally held it in place and then spread it out over the expanded hole in the heat shield.

Thanks, hit a nasty pothole and will do this the weekend!!

And I thought he was going to say just rip the @#$%& thing off. Great tip, Eric.

keep up the good fight

Thanks for showing that most people just rip them off not realizing what they're doing ...👍

Awesome. Thanks.

THANK YOU!!!!

My heat shields are not loose, but they still rattle due to the sound from the muffler. Do you think it is a good idea to put on dynamat ?

Can a rattling heat shield sound anything like engine misfire or ticking? I get it at higher rpms during acceleration, or during very sharp turns with accel... doesn't seem to affect performance or create hesitation.. 09 camry 2.4L

Thanks man 👍

Thank you good sir

I went to dealership service center for maintenance, and they said heat shield is rust and need to be replaced. It was like $250, and sounds like rip off, so I decided not to replace it. Does it matter??

nice video.. thnx

That's exactly what happened to me like 2 days ago. I found the source of the rattle and that's what it looks like.

What if it's the floor of the car? Can I use some selftap screws? Just below trunk for muffler

Yep, you can do that or you unscrew the original fitting, place the shield back over the original fixing holes and put a mid size metal washer over the heat shield where it has errored and screw back into original hole with original fixing.

Thank you so much

Can u just drill self tappers?

Fantastic. Just found out the heat shield was causing the rattling from my car. Next I need to find out why the reverse lights don't work, and no, it's not the breaks

NIcE... pop rivet... i think i will try that. Thank you

Love it! Common sense!