I had to fight with the dealership when I picked up my '05 in May last year, I wanted to see if these bolts were on the car fresh from the factory. They were. They were also on my '07 when I picked it up in July. I think this was only a problem on car's build before April '05. My car was built April 15th '05, and like I said, the bolts were installed. I think they fixed the strut bearing thing about the same time, I checked on that too, and it was no longer supposed to be a problem on cars built after April 6th or something. I remember that it was about a week before my car was built.

I've had 2 manual Mustangs ('05 and '07) and neither one had either problem.

But of course, I could just be lucky.

 

Cool, thanks! Those shouldn't be hard to get to!

 

When this issue first came up, my dealer ordered them and installed without making any fuss about it - at the time there was not a noise problem

 

I had an early build '05 and they were missing....I just installed my own bolts and the rattle went away. I did post about this back in the Feb '05 timeframe...if you care to search - it was a pretty large thread. My '07 GT/CS 5-spd has the bolts....I'm sure it was an '05 early production miss or something.

 

Same here got the factory bolts had them installed no charge .The Mustang had a rattle for the first few hundred feet untill the car warmed up ,once the bolts were installed no problem .

Many thanks to all of you from the origional thread not only did the dealer get the proper bolts because of all of you I told them this was in every early 05 GT manual trans mustang and to notify all there customers .
Nothing worse than a new car with a rattle to ruin the new car experiance .
The dealer got back to me later and thanked me ,it did a lot for thier public realations .

 

OK I drove the car up on ramps tonight, the bolts were installed in both holes from the factory.