Re: "marble" in my dash all of a sudden?
Wow, thanks for the tip. I had an annoying dash rattle that was getting slowly worse over time. It was especially annoying when I would drive through residential subdivisions that had roads made with sections of concrete. Every time I would go over those little gaps between the lines in the concrete I would get that annoying thwack sound in the dash, like something was loose.
I saw this post and while at Menards paid $1.97 for a piece of grey open-cell poly foam Comfort Seal air conditioner seal that measures 42" long by 1 1/4" x 1 1/4". Its intended use it to put around window air conditioner units to prevent leakage between the a/c unit and the window sash.
With a wooden paint stirring stick I slid it down between the glass and the dash, so far that you really can't see it.
So far in my test driver there ARE NO RATTLES. I was really uneasy about going the TSB route and having a tech completely take apart the dash assembly. I couldn't be happier with this cure. Now the only question is will it continue to work in cold weather. Because the insulation is so tight I am not sure temperature will have much of an effect.
Oh, by the way, the strip of foam rubber wasn't wide enough to go all the way across the windshield, but it didn't matter. My TCH is one of the 2007 models that was made in Kentucky, so I'm not sure if this is a problem any more for the newer models. Probably not.
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