2023 VW GTI Dashboard Creaks & Rattles Fix?

[Syd]

Hello - I have only had my new Golf GTI 4 days and already I have annoying dashboard creaks and rattles from the sea of plastic that makes up the dashboard. Someone suggested using WD-40 Anti Friction DRY PTFE Lubricant between all the joints on the dash as a way of solving the problem. Has anyone tried this approach and is this product OK to use on dashboard plastics? Cheers

[jv]

WD-40 on a new car?!  Head back to the dealer.

[Exonian]

Welcome Syd 

As jv says, that’s something for the dealer to sort out as it’s not normal in a mk8.
There are fewer separate panel sections in these dashboards so in theory they should rattle less.
Mine has an annoying one in certain warm dry weather conditions where it creaks somewhere on the offside but I can’t find the culprit section. I’ve learned to live with it and a few more body noises are setting in now the car is getting older. The bongs drown it all out though… 

[M6TT F]

Mine had various annoying vibrations and rattled, one of which was a high pitch vibration at high revs. Dealer could never hear them 🙄

[Mk8Clubby]

Mine has numerous creaks and rattles coming from the dash and doorcards. Hoping to get some of these resolved but reluctant to have dealership ripping out trim as they might make matters worse. For me it's the only negative I have with my mk8 Clubsport, the cheap plastics etc. As my car ages (2 years now) I'm just learning to live with it and turn up the radio  Car drives great which is what I bought it for. Not good enough tho, my Mk7 interior build quality was best, mk 7.5 slightly worse, and now the mk8 worse still.

[Syd]

Thanks for the info and feedback. I will get the dealer to check out my plastic vibration type rattle further

[SRGTD]

Mine has numerous creaks and rattles coming from the dash and doorcards. Hoping to get some of these resolved but reluctant to have dealership ripping out trim as they might make matters worse. For me it's the only negative I have with my mk8 Clubsport, the cheap plastics etc. As my car ages (2 years now) I'm just learning to live with it and turn up the radio  Car drives great which is what I bought it for. Not good enough tho, my Mk7 interior build quality was best, mk 7.5 slightly worse, and now the mk8 worse still.

That would always be my fear; dealer ripping out items of interior trim and creating more creaks and rattles in the process, damaging the trim and still not curing the original creaks and rattles!

I must say that I’ve been fortunate with the five VW’s I’ve owned as they’ve all been pretty much creak and rattle free. The interior of my current car (2020 Polo GTI+) seems pretty well screwed together in spite of its hard plastic door cards that I thought might be prone to creaks and rattles. That’s not proven to be the case though. Apart from a vibration from the storage cubby in the lower centre console a couple of years ago that only happened a handful of cases on a particular stretch of road, there’s been no unwanted interior noises. 

[JoeGTI]

I had 2 MK7's, both of them were much worse for dash creaks and rattles. The only buzzes I get in my MK8 seem to occasionally come from around the door cards.

I remember taking the centre console apart in my MK5 many years ago - the trim around the vents, etc and applying felt tape in the hope of curing it. Like Exonian said, the modern dash's like that in the MK8 have a lot fewer separate bits rubbing off each other like in the older gen cars.

[Mk8Clubby]

Ah well, maybe I just got unlucky with mine...feels like I always get the car built by the boy on work experience 

[fredgroves]

There are two rattly noises I get:

1) a rattle that sounds like its from the passenger side that actually is the overhead SOS unit... a thump fixes it for a while.

2) when it is hot weather, a rattle from the exterior plastic trim on the drivers door.

Dealer can't seem to hear or fix either...