Prado dashboard shakes

go to the 90series yahoo club site and its all there, and yes its the biggest pain in the a#se to fix but anything anyone has ever done is there. I am hoping it doesn't happen to mine. I think this is it:

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/90series/

Fester - welcome to the world of the dash-rattling 90 Series Prados.

I've owned two 90 Series and, apart from the dash rattling, they are great vehicles. Both vehicles, however, had problems with the dash on corrugated, and not so corrugated, roads.

The dash on the first vehicle actually fell away from the firewall. On return home after a trip across the Simpson I could run my fist behind the dashboard where it had separated from the firewall. The dealer would do "something" to reduce the rattles every 10k, however the problem was never fixed.

My second vehicle had less of a problem, in that the passenger side of the dash rattled like hell across corrugations, but the drivers side was quite tight. Much whingeing (from me) and countless excuses (from the dealer) were to no avail.

I now have a 120 Series, which has a completely different dash.

Good luck!

George

Fester,
Have an 2001 Prado, shakes and shimmies like yours. there are actually 2 Prado forums (I know of). One already mentioned. My memory is that people have tried various things. best to search the archives of both groups.

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/90series/

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/90scool_aus/

regards
Garth

I contacted the Toyota Australia customer service dept and explained the problem and they arranged for Sydney City Toyota to take the dash off and fix the problem.

thanks all. I'll try contacting Toyota Oz and see what happens from there and if all else fails I'll resort to silicon for a temp fix if I can get to the pins.

Hi fester

have experienced the same thing and had a go last week at tightening the mounting bolts/nuts. Trouble seems to stem from the fact there are only 2 upper mounting points, both behind the main instrument cluster and 3 lower points. Anyway I got a fair bit of tightening at each point and waiting to see what happens. Offto Cape York coming Saturday so should get a fair workout over the next 6 weeks or so.

On one of the Prado specific forums I recall a proposed fix was to drill up through the dash and into the frame that houses the heater / radio. From memory you drill up through the dash where the RHS cigarette lighter is and then fix through there. It did not look in the pictures that you could see this from normal seating positions.

Good luck