2000 GTS rear squeak

[santana2]

2000 GTS sqeak in the back. Sounds like it is near the back seats.I can't nail this sucker. Any clues?

[gt_chick]

i have the same problem but i have a 2000 gt and i CANNOT figure out what it is i thought it was the hatch but its not

[santana2]

So Far i have taken out the panels and tightned every screw in sight. I did change my exhaust to the TRD. Perhaps it is the heat shield. DId you change yours?

[goonies]

if it is the creaking sound it is natural in our 2000's. The center body has a weld and has a tendency to flex when going over bumps. I just learned to live with it. SUX.

[santana2]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo this cannot be it must be stopped

[gt_chick]

OMG I cannot live with that

[F22-Raptor]

Well mine squeaked over bumps and the hatch cover had lost its pad that laid on the plastic. See if that moved or is gone and if so replace...

[Blue Bomber]

It's supposedly in the passenger side C-pillar. There is no way for it to be repaired since it is inside the pillar, and is impossible to get to without hacking the car up seriously.

[santana2]

Where did you read that informationabout the sqeek blue bomer?

[Brian00GTS]

He's right. I remember keeping track of a discussion on this a couple of months ago, because my 2000 GT-S does the exact same thing, and it's REALLY annoying.

[Sups]

does anyone with a 2001 have this problem as well? i have a 2001 and my rear squeaks.. but i always thought it was the trd springs that were doing it. now having second thoughts

[Sillycar2001]

I have the same or similiar problem... When the rear chasis flexes, I hear this loud and annoying creaking sound...

However, good luck trying to get Toyota to solve the problem. In my case, I have taken my car into Toyota five times. The sound is still present and I am cuurently involved in Arbitration to get this problem fixed.

My car should not sound like it it is falling apart. I started Arbitration in February of this year and I am still involded in it - Canada does not have a lemon law. My expirience is way too long to post.

This is soooo frustrating paying 30K for a car and having to deal with this for over a year.

Good luck.

[santana2]

My 2000 gts had a rear squeak it was the rear wing. Two bolts were gone the other two were loose. Tightned them up and no squeak. 10mm if I remember correctly. Just take out the screw holding the hatch handle pop off the valance and you will see the wing screws

[Blue Bomber]

Does anyone with the TRD or Hypermotive rear strut bar have the squeak? The bar stiffens up the chassis near the C-pillar, so I'm just wondering if this could be a possible solution to the noise.

[Sillycar2001]

FYI,

My car is basically stock except for some appearance mods... I have read a lot of posts over the last two years and this seams to be a problem with the 2000 and 2001 models - manufacturing problem.

The sound that I am hearing is a creaking sound coming from the triangular passenger window.

I do not believe that the problem is caused by two loose bolts on the rear wing. The problem is somewhere around or inside the passenger side B-pillar.

This is a very weird and frustrating problem.

Just recently Toyota flew one of thier top technicians in from Toyota Canada's head office to diagnose the problem. I really thought they had fixed it this time but it was too good to be true. About a week later, the sound came back.

I my case I couldn't stand this annoying sound and the lack of quality in this vehicle. So, I decided to stick up for my right as a consumer to get a defective product repaired or replaced.

After reading so many posts about this similiar creaking sound, it hard not to think that there was a manufacturing defect in some 2000 and 2001 models of the Celica.

What I wrote above is my expirience only and I made a point of getting the defect properly diagnosed - even though it took many, many, many visits to multiple dealerships. I will get this problem address by Toyota of Canada.

[Brian00GTS]

I wish I would have caught it or heard about it before I got the car. That's the one thing I hate. It was barely out of warranty(although I have 100k powertrain), so there's really not anything I can do about it. But it's annoying as hell, I'll tell you that. It's definitely a defect in the build of the car, and I've never had anything like this happen with any of my Toyotas in the past.