GM Interior Repair Kit

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
05/29/2014 at 15:38 • Filed to: None

14 year old car, plastic getting brittle and breaking EVERYWHERE, and with GM's fetish for plastic fasteners that means RATTLES. EVERYTHING RATTLES.

DISCUSSION (10)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/29/2014 at 15:42

2/3 of my cars have steel dashboards and are 50 years old. What is this plastic of which you speak?

crowmolly > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/29/2014 at 15:43

Protip:

Use Elmer's glue.

Inside an "Interior Plastic Repair Kit" I got from Eastwood was a small jar of adhesive. It was Elmer's and worked better than super glue.

deekster_caddy > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/29/2014 at 16:05

I find Plastic Model Glue works pretty well on a lot of these oddball pieces. Superglue is good too, but watch out for your fingers!

Bandit > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/29/2014 at 17:46

I have a 14 year old GM vehicle! Everything rattles, everything is broken, everything that isn't broken is brittle, it's starting to rust, and the door panels are falling off. If I crash because I am stopping a rattle do I get a recall and can I sue?

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/30/2014 at 00:18

How in gods name is your 14 year old GM car rattling when my 20 year old GM car only lets out a rattle when I hit a huge pothole? The again, my mom's 6 year old Saturn has more rattles than my car.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
05/30/2014 at 00:22

200,000 miles and plastic fasteners combined with large temperature swings over the course of 14 years and now lots of vibration from loud music because I'm a teenager and I will ruin my hearing if I damn well please.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/30/2014 at 00:27

All very valid reasons. Especially because I have 55,000 less miles, mine was garaged 14 years of it's life, and I can't turn my stereo even halfway up because it starts sounding like crap. Mine seems to have a lot of metal fasteners as well.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
05/30/2014 at 00:29

My main dash panels are held in with metal clips, but then shit like my window controls are held in with now-broken plastic clips, and since there are speakers in the doors that are about 7 inches diameter, even bass kick results in a rattle from the controls, which I have now shimmed with a piece of cardboard to get them to shut up.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/30/2014 at 00:34

Shockingly, all those clips are made of really tough plastics and haven't broken! Even though im constantly slamming my knee into the door lock and window switches on accident.

TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/31/2014 at 01:03

If something stops squeaking or rattling on my Ranger, it has broken. The whole truck is made of annoying noises, except a V6 that I think sounds damn good.