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OK. I know rattles.suck, a lot of people have them but they drive me bezerk whether it's a 30k or a 140k car. I also know every car is different. But some sources of rattles are more common. So before I go mad searching, I though I'd ask.
07 TT. Rattles appear to come from some area deeper than the surface of the dash just above and behind the ignition. At times I think I it's behind the gauges but others it seems like it's 2 inches back into the dash. It's a higher frequency plastic on plastic vs a loose screw in plastic type sound.
If i push REALLY HARD above the ignition switch I can imagine it's better but can't tell for sure. It's non-existant or almost so, below about 15 or 20mph.
It's a Longshot but hoping for some direction
Thanks
It's not the vent. Almost to the right of that and above ignition.
Sometimes I think it's the speaker covers until I put my hand between the covers and the dash and it seems like it's more dash.
Do you have a replacement windshield? Sometimes if they install the windshield a little crooked the dash will rub on the windshield. My center speaker was rubbing on the windshield. I fixed it by removing the speaker grill and putting some felt on it. Eventually when I got a new windshield I realized the prior installer had just f'd up the install. My new windshield has a much larger gap between the dash and glass.
So my gauge cluster had already been partially wrapped in foam. So I finished the job covering the areas that weren't covered from the TSB.
I also added a little foam to the top sections as well because the lower foam was causing the upper part to rub now. In addition I had some lubricant made for plastic surfaces. I used that sparingly at the junction of the Grey face and the black rear section. The grey holds the lenses and just clips onto the black. I did this because when I gently flexed the cluster that was a similar sound to what I'd been hearing. I put that lubricant around the entire gauge, and in the grooves of all the clips. Anywhere the two pieces met.
I also pulled the cover that sits below the left vent and covered the same pins and clips as the TSB for the gauge. It seemed to be that creak that I just couldn't get my hands on.
Went for a drive and it was 90% better. But it allowed me to isolate another high frequency spot where my left knee would hit the dash if I pulled the seats all the way forward. If I pushed there it stopped. So I came home to learn I needed to pull the entire lower dash to get to that spot. (Next post will have the Pic because it's inserting pyxis in weird spots and I Can't move them.) I had some rubbery foam I attached to the two aluminum struts that support the lower dash. I also covered the dash panel in felt where the struts and thay rubber would touch. I put felt on a few a/c conduits that touched other parts of the car and generally just looked for any loose or closely positioned pieces.
Buttoned everything back up and took it down a county road that my wife says will make a rattle-trap out of even a new car. It was almost completely silent. Maybe totally silent but I wasn't sure if I imagined a few brief rattles but they went away so fast I couldn't be sure. Therefore, insignificant
So for me it was gauges plus the side piece below the vent plus the entire lower dash essentially bouncing off the aluminum support struts.
06-22-2018, 10:56 PM
Rattle rattle rattle
