TeGGeR <teggeratistopdotcom@changetheobvious.invalid> wrote:
> The car is still under warranty. If the rattle is bad enough, you can talk
> them into keeping the car long enought to track down and fix the source
> themselves.

It's really a choice of three:
1- fix it myself
2- take it back to the dealer for just this one item.
3- wait for the next scheduled service, when the car will be about 10
months old, if interior trim would still be under warranty by that time.

> The shop repair manual will give the exact location of all the clips by the
> way.

I have the shop manual, which shows the clips. I am not encouraged about
how easy it might be to pull the trim off. It looks like it goes down
below the level of the dashboard, or maybe it just flexes into that space a
little bit.

> Warning: Those plastic tabs are FRAGILE. Anytime you remove trim, you stand
> the great risk that one or more of the tabs will break off, resulting in

I don't like that possibility much at all.

> Trim's not really made to be removed these days.

I got that part ;-)

I think I'll take it in. That way if the trim breaks, it'll get replaced.
Maybe that's why they don't open it up unless they hear it.
The only question is "now or later".


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