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I have a '99 Mercury Mystique which I really like but recently I got a new dashboard installed since it was under recall. Well everyone warned me that my new dash would rattle forever. For a month or two it was great but now it is starting to rattle. Is there anything I could do to fix it or should I take it back to the dealer. Would they be able to do anything to correct this annoying problem or am I stuck with a this problem for the life of my car which I hoped to be at least four more years. Thanks.

They are just going to tighten a few screws, and slap some silicon goo on the areas where you have plastic to plastic contact. Thats only going to lsat about 2 weeks, then they'll be back.

I took my instrument cluster bezel off and put some thin foam double sided tape anywhere I thought there was going to be contact. Worked pretty good, and it is a bit less temporary than the dealer will do.

My dash rattles when i'm stopped. i had a feeling that it was a mount. took it to the shop and they found some other problems, but no mount. they said they fixed the problem, but i still heard a rattling then my altinator went bad(a bearing inside or something) i took it in and he found that the mount between the tranny and engine was in-fact broken. going to cost me $250 from the factory. the machanic doesn't know how to even get to the mount