Everlasting pursuit of a dashboard rattle

After the Service center failed me 2 times, I’ve taken it into my own hands to fix this awful noise. My hands hurt, it’s been too cold outside, my car is in pieces, and I haven’t found the source yet. It’s further in the dash but I’m making progress!

 

I’ve been watching the dang thing with every move! Taken me 2 days of fiddling with it to get this far!

 

Honestly everything is pretty secured in the dash like harnesses and such. They did a good job on my 2017 not too sure about any earlier cars.

I’m about to remove the top skeleton of the support to check deeper and I’ll see what else I’ll find!

 

Where did you read that? I’d like to review some of it I’ve been searching for a while.
I’m a 75 RWD car owner, although the sound is exactly what you’re talking about

 

No you’ll need to remove

1. The side panels on the dash where it meets the door
2. Remove the knee trim panels by pulling them towards you with excessive amounts of force
3. Then pull off the underside trim panel located 12o’ clock to the drivers display
4. Remove the two upper of the four screws holding on the driver display bezel
5. Remove the steering column rubber sleeve clips by popping it out towards you from its left and right pop clips
6. Remove the A pillar’s airbag logo bolt by popping off the cap and removing that (8mm I think) and pull the two clips at the bottom of the A pillar trim out of the mesh dash (mine needed a lot of force)
7. Remove the lower display bezel screws
8. Lift up on the dash to expose some air vent trim screws (I think there’s one upper screw for each vent)
9. Remove the driver left side air duct trim screws (2 lower and the 1 upper) and pull it away. There’s two clips also. One on each lower side
   
10. Remove the passenger side air vent trim by removing its two screws (towards the top sides.. I think you lift the dashpad out of its front clips some) and pull the panel away from its 4 clip sockets (two in the center area, two towards the touch screen bezel above the glove box button)
11. Remove pop in trim panel under glove box
12. Remove the 6 forward facing glove box screws (3 on top 3 on bottom near hinge) and disconnect the plugs towards the back left as you pull away
13. Remove your frunk large middle cover to expose the airbox tray. Remove the airbox tray by lightly pulling up on the side clips that meet the frunk weather seal area. Take that out to expose the airbox ducting, remove its two little similar clips and pull it out.
14. Disconnect your Firefighters safety plug by pulling the loop connector. (Turns off power to the battery)
15. Then disconnect your negative terminal then positive terminal from your 12 battery
16. Back inside, Above where you just took out the glove box, lower Autopilot computer box from its 4 small bolts (not scary just be mindful to not put hard pressure anywhere on it)
17. With the computer hanging down there will be 2 10mm airbag bolts (1 towards left 1 towards the right of the airbag located under the dashpad)
18. With the battery disconnected and no power to anything, pull up from left and right sides of the dash pad popping out the many clips on the way... and remove the left and right airbag connectors by pulling their center safety tabs out with a pick (L-Shaped pick work best)
19. Remove the slip on antenna connector above the touch screen from the dashpad remove the rest of the dashpad from the car!

Wasn’t so hard now was it....

I’ll make this into a separate post with pics at some point. I really wish there had been a step by step for me.