Help with rattles/squeaks please

[dantheman1]

As it's starting to get colder out, I've been noticing more squeaks and rattles lately. Hoping someone on here has experienced something similar and fixed them already.

There's a squeak coming from the passenger side upper dashboard area that's pretty prominent when going over speed bumps, potholes, etc. I don't think its the glove boxes, they seem to be sitting pretty solid.

There's also the pretty common middle-row rattle. Does anyone have any pictures of the specific bolts/screws I need to tighten? Even though I don't have a 3rd row, I have the 40/30/40 split seats, so there's a lot of rails and bolts under there.

Thanks!

 

[blackforestham]

There's also the pretty common middle-row rattle. Does anyone have any pictures of the specific bolts/screws I need to tighten? Even though I don't have a 3rd row, I have the 40/30/40 split seats, so there's a lot of rails and bolts under there.

Take a look at the bolts on the hinge which allows the seat to rotate forward. This is where my squeak was found. I tightened these and things actually became worse. A quick spray of silicone and the loosening (not too much) of this bolt eliminated the noise. Be sure to use the correct Torx bit. Since I was there, I also addressed the wiring for the seat warmers. There's a metal to metal spring clip that has "teeth" on it which presses onto the seat subframe for attachment. I used a small piece of hockey stick tape on the subframe, then re-attached. Much tighter and certainly no more squeak from there. I also zip tied the wiring to the plastic module box which lives underneath the seat. There was a "tick, tick, tick" sound which showed up when the wiring would bounce up and down and touch the module. Been quiet ever since. Now I can hear the differential whine better. Great...