Rattle from column cover behind steering wheel

[Burghardphotography]

Hey y’all,

This is my ‘22 JTRD, with only 8k miles on it so far. Almost since new, I have had this incessantly annoying rattle from inside the cover behind the steering wheel on the column. I have taken it to the dealership once, where they kept it a few days and then returned it. “Unable to Reproduce” ya right… I can hear this damn rattle even just crossing paint lines on the road. So I am turning to y’all for help!

Here’s some video of the sound:

And here is the cover, which seems a bit loose, but it doesn’t really move in the first video, so I think the rattle is from inside this cover, not the cover itself maybe:

Any thoughts? I’m leaving on a month long road trip and this rattle is going make me lose the little hair I have left!

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[Mr._Bill]

Have you tried driving it with the cover off to see if you can locate where the noise is coming from?

 

[Burghardphotography]

Have you tried driving it with the cover off to see if you can locate where the noise is coming from?

No not yet. I suspect once I take the cover off it’ll be easier to locate. I just don’t want to dive into disconnecting the battery and pulling the whole steering wheel off my daily to get this cover off, without maybe some semblance of advice or direction at first.

 

[Burghardphotography]

So for those who are curious about this issue in the future, I don’t know what exactly I fixed, but I fixed it here’s what checked:

Took off airbag, steering wheel, and first plastic cover around the clock spring in front of the levers (what I was tapping on in my video above). From there I noticed two things:

1. The four hex head small screws holding the rear plastic cover to the clock spring/indicator levers assembly were barely tightened so I ended tightening those more. Before that, I removed them to get a better look at the rearward plastic cover that attaches to the leather bellows for the tilt wheel, which leads to the next thing.

2. The bellows are held onto the rear plastic cover by four orange click-in tabs. The top left tab on mine was not seated all the way by a hair. Pushed it in until I heard the click of the tabs seating.

From there I reassembled making sure it was all nice and tight, took it for a drive, and boom ? problem was solved. My sanity can finally return ?

 

[Lunentucker]

The diddling pin was definitely disengaged from the wobbling shaft.
You could've also zip tied the partomeous induction turdler to the main secondary primary fracture tunnel and fixed it.

Good job!

 

[Burghardphotography]

The diddling pin was definitely disengaged from the wobbling shaft.
You could've also zip tied the partomeous induction turdler to the main secondary primary fracture tunnel and fixed it.

Good job!

If only I had thought of that! Would have been done twice as fast! ?

 

[Lunentucker]

If only I had thought of that! Would have been done twice as fast! ?

There's alcohol involved here.
Glad you got it!

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