Fixing rattles

[wandersen]

Just a quick FYI for everyone. I have a 2007 Passat which had a couple of rattles in the dash that drove me crazy. I saw this recommended for fixing rattles on another site:

Amazon.com: DuPont GPL 205 Krytox General Purpose Grease - .5 Oz Tube: Home Improvement

5 mins work and all my rattles are gone! The grease is specially designed for plastic (so does not make it deterioriate like other greases). Expensive, but worth every cent.

[guthrie]

Which joints did you do? And did you just push the grease in from the front and wipe the excess off?

[wandersen]

To be honest my rattles were coming from my door jams (easy) and from the surround on the stereo (easy to remove and replace). I just put some grease on and spread it with a paintbrush - all gone. I think if it's coming from another area you'd need to do some disassembling - but well worth it. If they were more generous with the stuff you probably could just squirt it in and hope for the best - but it's $29.00 for a tube the size of a super-glue tube....

[satz]

If you're taking panels off, then blutak or plascticine works wonders.

I've used it on many cars to stop/reduce rattles. No mess, and cheap!