[Jmray3]

Hi all! Purchased Feb 28th, loving it so far. My vehicle is apart of the recent recall for the rear suspension knuckles and needs to be inspected. VW says the number of actual vehicle with the defective knuckles is way less than that of the total recalled units. No worries there. I have used carista to change the throttle response and a few other things. I have 20% ceramic tint all around with 35% on the windshield. Garage stored, driving in eco mode for 90% of the time, getting around 30-32mpg combined. (AWD). I have one annoying thing that I can’t seem to find a way to address. On the dashboard, in the center, the speaker grate rattles CONSTANTLY while driving at all speeds. Anyone else experience that??

 

[OmegaWave]

About 2 weeks after I purchased my Taos last July, I had driven about 100 miles to see family and on the drive back I heard a rattle and it was coming from that center grate. I put my hand on it and sort of shifted it a little and the rattle stopped, and I've never heard another rattle from it since. 🤞.

I see you have the splash/mud guards installed, do you like those? Any chance you could post some closeup pics of those? I'm thinking of ordering them

 

[CRVW]

Mine rattled occasionally on rough surfaces. I removed it and added a small stack of double-sided sticky pads between the panel and the bottom of the well underneath it (to the side of the speaker) and re-installed. No more rattle.
To remove it, you have to pry it up from the front edge (closest to you, away from the windshield) first. There is a clip on each side near the front corners that need to pop out and there are 2 little tabs on the back that slide into holes which is why you lift the front first. I used 2 pry tools - one to lift the middle of the front edge which makes it easy to get the second one in nearer the corners.