Interior Rattles, Squeaks, Creaks, 95% Fixed trunk B Pillars, Doors, Centre Console and Dash

[Jree]

I have a vibration noise coming from the interior passenger door panel, the black triangular piece just inside of the side mirror.
Sounds like weather stripping or very fast clicking. Anyone experienced this?

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[Jree]

I have little rattles coming from both sides in this area. The inner circle is what I suspect to be vibrating making little rattles on bumpy roads.
Have you experienced this?

 

[dazza]

I have little rattles coming from both sides in this area. The inner circle is what I suspect to be vibrating making little rattles on bumpy roads.
Have you experienced this?

Yes, both sides were rattling over bumps pull the panels off felt tape in areas.

The curves panel comes off first and it's just held with clips then you can pull the top panel above belt also held with clips. It's a bit of trial and error before you eliminate the rattles and squeeks. It's worth doing and hard to break anything.

You may break some clips so. The panel above the belt clips back into place without clips and rattles less without the clips so I actually ended up leaving the clips out.

There is a b pillar piece of plastic that can also creak. It connects to the top plastic piece via a metal clip. The metal clip is the culprit..I ripped it out. Buy plenty of thin foam tape to pad areas where there is plastic on plastic.

I can drive in any surface and bump any angle with zero rattles.

I still have a creaky dashboard but can't seem to find anyone who can tell me how to remove that panel.

 

[Jree]

Yes, both sides were rattling over bumps pull the panels off felt tape in areas.

The curves panel comes off first and it's just held with clips then you can pull the top panel above belt also held with clips. It's a bit of trial and error before you eliminate the rattles and squeeks. It's worth doing and hard to break anything.

You may break some clips so. The panel above the belt clips back into place without clips and rattles less without the clips so I actually ended up leaving the clips out.

There is a b pillar piece of plastic that can also creak. It connects to the top plastic piece via a metal clip. The metal clip is the culprit..I ripped it out. Buy plenty of thin foam tape to pad areas where there is plastic on plastic.

I can drive in any surface and bump any angle with zero rattles.

I still have a creaky dashboard but can't seem to find anyone who can tell me how to remove that panel.

Time to get to work after some sleep. Thank you.

 

[dkmcclelland]

Does anyone have rattling or creaking from the iDrive screen or the center speaker? When I touch the screen or the panel right on the bottom of the screen where it touches the speaker grille it stops

 

[SupraYYJ]

Does anyone have rattling or creaking from the iDrive screen or the center speaker? When I touch the screen or the panel right on the bottom of the screen where it touches the speaker grille it stops

@tadda posted about this over at vibrations-rattles-in-2020-premium-supra.2294/page-9#post-91196.

 

[Paolo]

Hey guys,
I may have a very easy rattle fix for the driver and passenger door rattle/buzz when driving.

Fixed it on the driver side, and last weekend it was perfect (long drive suburbia and highway test).

Will do the passenger door rattle fix and test and post solution shortly. (after this weekend)

This rattle has been on these doors since new. It is single handily the most annoying rattle buzz I've ever heard in a new car. It is particularly bad when travelling on coarse road surface and above 20mph. I have isolated where it comes from after much testing.

Finally your ears can relax and enjoy the quiet cabin.

Stay tuned.


EDIT:

Ok
Fix is simply to place some cardboard slice near the door locks between plastic and frame.
Good luck all. It may not look great but it does the job.

 

[Rad_AMG]

300 miles on the car and I have a rattle coming from the driver side dash near the HUD screen. Mainly just happens at idle and seems to go away at speed. Anyone else experience this? This is my first "BMW" product, is this just the norm for BMW? My daily is a 2020 4Runner w/ 13K miles on it and not a squeak or creak to be found anywhere.

 

[GorillaGuy]

For anyone looking for a step by step DIY to remove all of the center stack and get rid of the annyoing creaking....here you go: https://www.supramkv.com/threads/ho...k-interior-controls-fix-squeaks-creaks.10396/

 

[Grady60]

Maybe you all should report this to Toyota. If they get enough complaints they might look into it. Just my 2 cents

 

[a90_tay]

Has anyone got the how to to remove the interior trim. I have done it before a couple years ago but have forgotten.

Also - anyone know the torque spec for the strut bar?

 

[monkahead]

Maybe you all should report this to Toyota. If they get enough complaints they might look into it. Just my 2 cents

I think Toyota doesn't care, 5th year into serial production and they haven't improved interior plastic trim fit and the noise they generate, while it's so easy to be done by OEM by just adding more sound absorbing foams or felts on the plastic parts. I'm very disappointed with interior quality of Toyota, but as @dazza wrote here, it's not a BMW's interior (which I was expecting), it's Toyota's interior with BMW switches ... When I discussed that at the dealership, they just said "It's a Toyota, what would you expect", so I really don't understand where this legendary quality is coming from.

I think next spring I'll fix this interior trim noise on my own.

 

[dazza]

I think Toyota doesn't care, 5th year into serial production and they haven't improved interior plastic trim fit and the noise they generate, while it's so easy to be done by OEM by just adding more sound absorbing foams or felts on the plastic parts. I'm very disappointed with interior quality of Toyota, but as @dazza wrote here, it's not a BMW's interior (which I was expecting), it's Toyota's interior with BMW switches ... When I discussed that at the dealership, they just said "It's a Toyota, what would you expect", so I really don't understand where this legendary quality is coming from.

I think next spring I'll fix this interior trim noise on my own.

I haven been on this forum for a long time and then this email came through.

Good luck fixing everything. I sold the car after I fixed everything but it was never perfect. I went back to a golf R mk7.5 which was perfect quality barring a sunroof creak that is a known issue. I ended up removing the entire sunroof and fixing the issue permanently. From then onwards loved the car for its interior build quality. People knock the Golfs for their issues but I have owned plenty of BMW's which all rattled and creaked. Once you take these cars apart and examine the way they are designed you get to realise that none are perfect but some are certainly better than others. Toyota's are mechanically good but everything else is sub quality. Most people who buy Toyota's for a white goods experience anyway and dont care about nice design, fit and finish.

So I purchased a Porsche Macan GTS with the upgraded leather interior. It's no better designed or built than a VW Golf in the interior quality with the exception of the leather covering hard plastic. It wasnt perfect either. Mechanically very capable ofcourse.

I sold it after 6mnths and purchased a Maxda mx5 RF ND3. Which I am in love with.

 

[monkahead]

I went back to a golf R mk7.5 which was perfect quality barring a sunroof creak that is a known issue.

I work in automotive so I often travel to VW R&D in Wolfsburg for cubing and I can say that VW quality standards are still high.

I have owned plenty of BMW's which all rattled and creaked.

I'm surprised as I would expect a noiseless car from BMW.

I sold it after 6mnths and purchased a Maxda mx5 RF ND3. Which I am in love with.

I had an NCFL Miata for 4 years and I loved this car, I sold it. It generated less interior rattle and creak than Supra, which is crazy. If I haven't purchased Supra, I would have bought an ND3 RF in Aero Gray.

This week I was on a business trip in Munich and I rented a Mercedes C43 AMG Turbo Electrified and the interior quality blew my head, it was much better than BMW 3 series and completely on another level compared to a Supra. The price was also crazy, around 92k USD but this was really a premium quality interior, without any rattle.

 

[dazza]

Mercedes that surprises me. I have had experience with those and the last generation petrols were horrible. Maybe they fixed it with the electrified versions. I drove in a 2022 C63 AMG and it was horrible

BMW's latest generation interiors seems to have improved.

I'm OCD over the top. Every time I'm in a BMW - say 2020 vintage and the owner drives up a shopping centre ramp where the car flexes I hear massive creaking nobody hears it but me. and then over bumps and this is in a 4 series or a X3.

I have the 2024 ND3 RF and over any bump or incline or rough road there is not a single rattle. Admittedly the car has only done 3000km's but from my experience I hear noises when the cars are brand new. The Porsche Macan rattled in some areas. I have a driveway that puts any car to the test when reversing out. Not one car has passed without hearing cabin creak except the MX5, could just be that the MX5 is so small but I think the Chassis is so tight and reinforced underneath it simply doesn't flex.

Its horrible being so rattle obsessed, where normal folk dont hear anything and dont care. My rattle obsession has cost me a lot of money - ha ha.

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