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Console: All Technical Service Bulletins
Interior - Instrument Panel Squeaks/Rattles

Group: 70

Number: 00-01

Date: June 15, 2000

Subject: 
Instrument Panel, Eliminating Squeaks/Rattles

Model(s): 
New Beetle

1998 --> 2000

Condition

Squeaks/rattles in area of instrument panel when driving over uneven roads.

May be caused by friction between various plastic parts and their mating surfaces.

Service

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Reproduce noise (road test with customer if necessary).

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Identify type and location of noise.

Locate description of noise and repair by applying felt strips as outlined on the following pages:

Center plenum panel cover

Squeaking/rattling near forward radii of center plenum panel cover (arrows).

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Pull center cover -1- forward out of latch and remove from instrument panel (arrow A).

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