G'day Greg,

Thanks for the response.

Amongst many things, I have inspected the whole exhaust, banged and clattered it, checked for touch points (appear to be none hot or cold), loosened and tightened exhaust hangers and mount (near flex pipe ) to the chassis, moved the flex pipe back and forth in case it is was binding. DPF well who knows - it feels solid with no rattles. I have also got out spanner and tightened all heat shield bolts underneath including all the plastic cover(s) smaller bolts underneath.

But it is worth rechecking again including undoing the exhaust hangers to relieve a little tension to see if this changes the vibration/resonance, or the wire trick as you have suggested. Notably the exhaust hangers do not have a lot of give.

Good advice regarding getting an AUTO place to do a full assessment.

I am a little sus on the auto and over run vibration and possible tinny noise/rattle and vibration potentially from this vicinity.

And unless one of the engine mounts has softened enough to cause this grief. But short of swapping these out, these seem ok as best as I can ascertain loading then up in drive and reverse and visual inspection and feel when engine is running.

Given this all started about 10,000ks ago and its only up to 23K its a bit of a worry for such low kms. Prior to that I was impressed with the general smoothness.

Dam I should have contacted you when I was in Canberra last week! If there is any one in Melbourne who wouldn't mind comparing their vehicle, I would be very grateful, and feel free to PM me.

Cheers,

Scott