I've undone the two screws but I can't manage to actually pull it out. There's nothing to grip on? Any tips?

(Trying to remove it as I am fairly sure it's rattling)

Its wedged in there quite hard. I have found the best way is to get a flat screwdriver in at the top. The dash material is kind of spongy and you can kind of get in behind to apply pressure to tip it forwards from the top. I doubt the cluster will be rattling - maybe something behind it.

Its wedged in there quite hard. I have found the best way is to get a flat screwdriver in at the top. The dash material is kind of spongy and you can kind of get in behind to apply pressure to tip it forwards from the top. I doubt the cluster will be rattling - maybe something behind it.

Excellent, thanks. Got it out by wedging a screwdriver in at the left and right top sides. I put some draught excluder tape the whole way around, pushed it and upwards tight and done the screws up.

A quick drive about and I *think* it's got rid of it. I hope. I can't seem to eliminate any rattles recently!! They just keep coming back.

Next up I seem to have a loud and VERY annoying rattle from the HU / glove box area. I taped up all the HU wires with the felt side of velcro, so I don't think it's those. I think it's the "at your feet" aiming air vent thing from under the glove box. I pulled that towards me and it seemed to stop it. But it just springs back in to it's resting position, obviously :-( I had the glove box off this weekend (was doing it before that) and that part was screwed in, so I have no idea...

haha your like me, any little noise drives me bonkers

haha your like me, any little noise drives me bonkers

Yeah lol. It's driving me insane!

Have you checked whether there is anything rolling around in the Secret Compartment ?

In the glove box the floor lifts up from the front edge, worth a look.

DB.

Mine rattles a lot but my exhaust (93db static @ 3500 revs) tends to drown them out. Bonus.

Have you checked whether there is anything rolling around in the Secret Compartment ?

In the glove box the floor lifts up from the front edge, worth a look.

DB.

I have indeed. It's deliberately empty for this reason ;-)

Mine rattles a lot but my exhaust (93db static @ 3500 revs) tends to drown them out. Bonus.

That would also do my nut The drone of my Milltek TB is bad enough.

Well, according to the drive in to work:

The instrument cluster (that's the word I was looking for originally, but gave up and went for speedo) no longer seems to rattle. Result!

The rattle from that air vent is reduced to basically nothing, but I do have to keep pulling it towards the passenger seat. It does get "stuck" for a while on the glove box plastic but slowly works it's way free. I'll have to have a look at that one this weekend.

The drive to Lowestoft later usually shows up rattles more though, so I am still not 100% convinced. The roads are in worse condition :-(

Main rattle in mine is called the wife, unable to fix easily. LOL

Main rattle in mine is called the wife, unable to fix easily. LOL

Haha. Passenger seat eject button is required in this instance.

Haha. Passenger seat eject button is required in this instance.

You naughty boy, don't go putting brilliant ideas into my head. LOL

i sit in my car at least 8 hours everyday on lessons! ( driving instructor) it rattles like hell, the glove box, the passenger door, behind the headunit its a nitemare! literally drives me round the bend! :(

You naughty boy, don't go putting brilliant ideas into my head. LOL

http://www.golfmkv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99334

I think there's an ejector seat button on there (blocked at work). Get one and slowly move the finger towards it every so often whilst she's in there

i sit in my car at least 8 hours everyday on lessons! ( driving instructor) it rattles like hell, the glove box, the passenger door, behind the headunit its a nitemare! literally drives me round the bend! :(

I know how you feel. It was driving me nuts. I've cured a lot of mine now. It takes time, but it's much more bearable.

Glove box:

Make sure there's nothing under the flap in the glove box. I found a screw hidden right at the back!! Saying that, I think I still have a tiny rattle from the glove box area, but I can only just barely hear it.

Doors:

I would start by taking the door cards off of all the doors and wrapping all loose wires in the felt side of velcro tape.

The door clips have been changed too, so get those. They seem to be a much tighter fit.

I also actually found part of an old broken door clip rattling around inside one of the rear door cards too.

I have actually put Envirolay 42oz on each of the door cards too. It shouldn't be used where there's a possibility of damp really, but I am taking the risk. It's cut out a fair bit of road noise too. My g/f noticed and thought there was something wrong with the car

Head unit:

First make sure it's not the rattle from behind the hazard light button. There's a thread on it somewhere on here.

I've wrapped all my leads in felt velcro tape which helped.

I found a part of the cars wiring loom had unclipped itself from the car somehow too. It goes around some kind of metal rail thing inside there. It's just like a threaded plastic thing that pushes in to a hole.

Just yesterday I sorted a very loud rattle from my headunit. It was actually the CD tray inside. When there was no CD loaded, there was a bit of the tray rattling against something inside. Not what I expect from a Pioneer P88-RSII, but keeping a CD in it has sorted that one out!