How to stop a rattling interior???
 

With over 100,000 miles my console and dashboard are pretty sad. The plastic surrounding the stick shift (automatic), the console, and the plastic where the cigarette lighter and the empty space are all lose and rattle constantly.

Does anyone have tips on giving the interior a face lift? Is there a certain glue that could help seal everything?

thanks

OK, maybe I'm asking the wrong question.

Does anyone else have this problem?

i have the same problem, i corrected the dash rattle by finding where it rattles, and sticking a nickel in the groove where it rattles, problem solved. well at least for me

Thereshould be some screws in your console tray, around the shifter area, inside the box at the front of the console under the dash. I think they are phillips heads. Perhaps they have wiggled loose over time? I would first try tightening them all up. If that dopesn't work, you could get some rubber donut washers and put them under the console and then tighten it up.

The dash I don't know about. If I give mine a good pounding like Fonz on Happy days sometimes it stops rattling and sometimes it doesn't.

as far as the dash...I'm with tnthub:) Sometimes it just gets so annoying you have to fonz it...and sometimes it works. Mine has over 100 grand as well and my car rattles everywhere...trunk, windows, cd player, center console, window switches, and sometimes the dash. I am seriously thinking of dynomatting the whole dang car...It is hard, my wife drives a lexus and not one squeak comes from it, then when you get in my car you think you are driving with a one man band. You might be able to take off the dash and dynomat it if worse came to worse, tighten the screws on the shifter and if all else fans give it a little fonzy love!!

High mileage here too, lots of sqeaks and rattles. I've used felt tape (kinda like the tape in between the cassete hoder and the radio in areas on the top dash where it was sqeaking with the a piller covers. Also, the bezel around my gear shift fits loosely and squeeked alot as well. Solved that a little by removing the bezel and washing it with hot water with just a tad of soap (but rinsed thourougly) this seemed to keep the parts from "sticking" as the tried to slide against eachother, making the noise.

These are all good ideas that I will try soon. If I get rid of the squeak I'll let everyone know how I did it.

It's definitely going to take some rigging.

Well I eliminated most of the squeak. I lined the edge of the plastic casing holding the stick shift with very thin, black cloth. Next I took the same black cloth and neatly wedged it above and below the cigarette lighter/open pocket. This made everything seal up nicely and kept everything tight. No more plastic rubbing plastic.

If done neatly it is hard to notice and there is no more noise.