As I had my car apart this WE I decided to look into this problem more closely for the poor sufferers of this problem . Happy to say that I am pretty sure this fix will solve it for everyone . I would rank it as 3-4/10 on the difficulty scale if you have never removed any panel. If you have then it is a 1/10 so super easy so the hardest part is just removing the panels.

Here are the photos identifying all the hard contact points that can rattle together and the solution for each point that I came up with. There probably is only one specific trouble spot but I wasn’t going to disassemble and reassemble each time after treating one area just to find this out. It just means you have to treat every single possible failure point like I did which is probably better in the long run anyways.



You will need to remove both the speaker baffle and the speakers and brace from the car

One lower arm of speaker brace could vibrate here so needs treatment



Remove raised ring from back of speaker baffle for tweeter




Remove small partial raised ring from around the tweeter case









Extra felt pad attached here



Extra foam strips here



Locating pins on cubby flap are felt wrapped




Wrap both holes at the base of the cubby flap. Bottom photo shows only half done so far on left hole

 

Thanks.. saw your link from the mega thread. This is perfect timing as I am getting ready to put all my trim pieces back on soon.

 

I forgot to mention also wrapping the 4 holes that hold the panel push plugs so it is tight enough to not rattle but still allow some movement to align the plugs



these ones x4

 

Update -scrap the felt pads - use compressible foam weather proofing draught strips instead

 

This is great. If possible it would also be great is someone could post pics or a description of how to pop the panel off. Where to pry, how to avoid any breakage risk, etc. I'm sure many do this stuff routinely, but I don't and I'm always nervous when I have to. Thanks.

 

Awesome!