Creaking and rattling everywhere in the Gen II!

[Lachlan]

My Gen II seems to develop a new creak each week.

atm its got: rattling handbrake knob, speedo/rev tunnel cluster is loose and creaks/rattles, something around the passenger seat (yet to diagnose exactly where), windscreen and many other little ones.

Had a few other ones fixed at my last service (parcel shelf, passenger window and something else).

Anyone else having such troubles?
If so, has anyone managed to fix any up, as Im sick of it sitting at the mazda shop 24/7 with various issues (electrical, turbo, heatshield so far...fingers crossed).
Is it easy to take any of the panels out and what to use to pad them?

Cheers

[BradstaMS]

Hmmm sounds like yours was built on a Friday, sorry to hear

[Lachlan]

yeah, after about a month i was pretty convinced they built my car out of spare bits they had lying around at mazda.
Still love it though, handling still works......beautifully!
plus its all under warranty, just annoying

[cbills]

the dash cluster has to be THE most annoying one in my car at present, they seem to come and go which is more frustrating! I also have one by the front passenger door somewhere but hard to find it when your driving, wondering if it might be the speaker in the door?

[desssa]

was going to say glad i bought aluminium as blue was my second choice ,but cbills just wrecked that for me .. no rattles etc yet 3000kms

[BradstaMS]

I might add too that mums SP25 has done 35,000 and only the drivers seat squeak, very odd since the MPS is not much different

[Lachlan]

the dash cluster has to be THE most annoying one in my car at present, they seem to come and go which is more frustrating! I also have one by the front passenger door somewhere but hard to find it when your driving, wondering if it might be the speaker in the door?

Yep, dash cluster is the same on mine. comes and goes. worse when its cold. atm its got a folded piece of masking tape jamed in it to hold it till i have time to rip it out and pad it up

[cbills]

hahaha I just turn the music up but my ears prick up every bump, damn Adel roads don't help either!

[Lachlan]

I do the same. stereo on high. 50% of my driving is on country roads so...........

Well ill try pulling some of mine appart some point and see how ard it really is. im assuming the instrument cluster is not to hard at least

[cbills]

it seems to be the clear plastic cause when i push on the top of it with my fingers it stops creaking then i smile... until i get to a corner and then have to move my hand and it starts again gaar! Oh and also I'm so lazy, the Mazda dealership is at the end of my street more or less and yeah LAZY ME haha (see below) its actually prob less than 500M ...