Hello,

 

Does anyone else have a rattle from their front Dash airvent? I can see a bit of movement in mine. Holding my hand on it when driving stops the rattle

I haven’t yet, but have got a rattle from my glovebox which can be fixed by jamming a wee cloth in it 😂😂

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Edited 13 April, 20215 yr by inspectorman
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Glove box lid. Solved with a little bit of sticky backed foam. The weedy plunger springs in the dash are meant to hold the lid down on its catches - but it's all plastic on plastic with no damping or softness, and scope to move L/R  / up/down a little. Hence the noise.

Mines just developed an annoying rattle from somewhere between the centre air vents and the display unit. Anyone seen anything similar?

A bit tired of the number of quality issues I'm getting. 

I have loads of these (silicon dots) stuck everywhere inside the glovebox to try and stop it rattling. 

I've just started to get a rattle/vibration from the centre console somewhere, haven't tracked down exactly where though.  Seems to be only when the sound actuator is enabled too and when accelerating hard and thus louder sound.  I had the car in Eco mode and didn't hear it, not sure where the actuator sound comes from, thought it was the speakers, anyone know?

On 06/08/2021 at 10:34, Ozzy25 said:

I have loads of these (silicon dots) stuck everywhere inside the glovebox to try and stop it rattling. 

Did it stop the rattles? Mine is driving me nuts.

Need more dots............

Anyone with any news about this problem?

My brand new MK4 already showed me in the first few hundred km that it's capable of such squeaks/rattles. Noises that in much cheaper cars (and less esteemed brand - such as Renault) I could hear ONLY after many tens of thousand km, and mainly in winter when plastics are more rigid... This weekend the new Octy was rattling at ~30 degrees Celsius!!!
I'm not sure that I was able to precisely pinpoint my dashboard cricket, but my first suspect is the shiny piece of plastic trim on the dashboard, between the steering-wheel and the left air vent. The noise was gone each time I pressed this plastic towards the dashboard.... 😡

 

BTW, the imbecile that designed the sport steering-wheel on Octavia mk4 should start driving. I'm convinced that such idiotic ideas come from designers that never drove a car in their life...
The third spoke (lower-center one) has this highly-shiny chrome finish on the inside. Guess what: IT DOES reflect sunlight directly into the drivers eyes. I'm not speaking about a brief flash on a curvy road. I was driving on a straight line for more than a minute, with the sun lighting this third spoke through the front-left window; the reflection was really blinding me. I had to cover the shiny trim with my hand for that road-sector...

I've got the same coming from the center air vent.  Any fixes posted?

I have this issue too, but only when its cold outside and only at 1400rpm (TDI). This is the sound:

 

Hi, I had the same problem with the rattle/vibration in the dashboard near the vent. I found on my car the vent is slightly too small to fit the hole in the dash. When I applied slight pressure to the speaker, HUD cover or the vent the noise stopped. I made a small spacer that fits inbetween the dash and air vent using a small piece of card then wrapping it in fabric wiring loom tape.