Creaky dashboard?

[Ford 0]

Hi does anybody out there have a creaky dashboard? I.e. when the steering wheel moves slightly up and down it makes the dashboard creak. Anybody have this problem and if so how did you fix it. Any idea why it chooses to do it, really annoying and a bit disconcerting. Had a go in another corrado yesterday and it does not have the same problem. Many thanks

[jedi-knight83 0]

mine creaks all over the place too :(

 

next job is the interior though as the exterior will be finished on wednesday next week. :D

[randal 0]

Strip the whole thing down.

Swear.

Cover the back, corners, sides of everything that touches everything else in black felt.

Swear.

Re-assemble.

Swear.

Find Bumpy road

Hoon it.

Grin :D

[kangaroo 0]

Strip the whole thing down.

Swear.

Cover the back, corners, sides of everything that touches everything else in black felt.

Swear.

Re-assemble.

Swear.

 

Lose at least half-a-dozen screws in the process.

Swear.

[dinkus 10]

Strip the whole thing down.

Swear.

Cover the back, corners, sides of everything that touches everything else in black felt.

Swear.

Re-assemble.

Swear.

 

Lose at least half-a-dozen screws in the process.

Swear.

 

..or have 4 screws left over at the end...

[jedi-knight83 0]

fcuk that...dont fancie taking the dash out to be honest

[randal 0]

It's not actually that bad tbh, bit of a lengthy job and can be a little frustrating. But worth the near silent results at the end.

 

Matt and dinkus - I've experienced both. I laughed my ass off when I read those one after another. :D

[Ford 0]

JESUS!!?!!..... is that the only option? How many hours labour is that?

 

randal_24

near silent results

 

Does that mean it still creaks, but a muffled creak due to the black felt?

[dinkus 10]

JESUS!!?!!..... is that the only option? How many hours labour is that?

 

randal_24

near silent results

 

Does that mean it still creaks, but a muffled creak due to the black felt?

 

Er no, it means the panels still move, but they don't make a noise...

[Ford 0]

Er no, it means the panels still move, but they don't make a noise...

 

 

I know I was just joking... but still getting over the idea of having to strip the dash....

[CoxyLaad 0]

where do you get this black felt from ?

[bighairymuppet 0]

as for the screws thing been there done that got the tshirt lol! :lol:

theres nothing worse than when the screw falls down in between the handbake and the casing argh!!!! :mad:

now i have a "wand" with a pretty strong magnet in my toolkit thank **** for that or id be there for days when that happens. :oops: :)

[biggerbigneil 0]

I recently got the black felt tape from Colbornes VW in Guildford, searched Halfords, Homebase and various random parts shops before :roll:

[G60Jet 1]

my dash vibrates at a harmonic with the car accelerating at one part of the rev range in second. must strip it one weekend and find out where its coming from

[Kevin Bacon 5]

where do you get this black felt from ?

 

John Lewis sell the best stuff. It's black, sticky backed and self adhesive. I used 5M of the stuff de-squeaking an old E30 Bimmer! It works really well.

 

It's the sort of job best done on a sunday afternoon with a few beers as it's feckin boring and tedious! But worth it, especially if you replace all the broken/missing clips aswell.

 

I found the instrument cluster creaks a lot.....even when out of the car!

[Ford 0]

I found the instrument cluster creaks a lot.....even when out of the car!

 

That's exactly what mine does... a trip to John Lewis me thinks... many thanks for all suggestions. Not looking forward to this job though!