Hello All! New poster here with a quick question.
I have a 2020 F150 Sport. Love the truck but over the past few weeks, whenever I make a turn I can hear something inside the dash skitter back/forth as I turn. I tried looking up behind the steering column with a flashlight, and then with a cheap borescope I got off Amazon but cannot see anything. I even resorted to sticking a vacuum hose up there to see if I could suck up whatever the loose, offending, noise-maker is but to no avail!
I'm not sure if a clip has let go/broken off, but it's driving me absolutely nuts. Has anyone had this happen to them?
Or does anyone know of a way to get into the dashboard? I'm pretty handy and really don't want to bring it to the dealership where they may break more trying to fix it (assuming they even bother to at all!).
Even the passengers can hear it sliding back/forth as I turn!
Thank you in advance!
(And yes, it's definitely IN the dashboard. I have emptied everything out of the cup holders, center console, glove compartment, etc. I'm meticulous about the vehicle and don't have lose items/garbage floating around. The noise sounds like it's about mid-height on the dash).

 

Hello! Could you privately message us your VIN and current mileage so I can look into this dash concern for you?

 

I too had an odd sound in my 2020 truck when turning, but in my center console/shifter area. Sounded like something rolling around. Finally one day I popped some of the trim apart and looked with a flashlight. Found a small torx screw laying deep with in the console. Had to retrieve with one of those long reach mini claws. Solved my issues.

 

It could conceivably be a “NUT” or “NUTS” left by a mouse, the exact same noise occurred on my wife’s 2019 Ranger, at first the tech at the dealer thought it could be a loose bolt, screw of nut from a bolt, he took a video camera attached to a cable and snaked the camera into the dash vent and spotted a bunch of tree nuts stockpiled in the heat/ac duct work in the dash. I had him install a screen around the system’s air intake I also purchased a Loraffe under hood animal repeller that works off the vehicles battery to keep those little bastards OUT! For 50 bucks.

 

I had a live .22 round fall out of the heater in my '69 F100, which I had purchased used, after I had driven the truck for about 3 years. Made a heck of a racket all of a sudden while it was in the squirrel cage.

 

Often times disgruntled workers will deliberately position things in impossible-to-get-to-after-assembly places.

 

Not to distract from the o.p., but...how do we know you are for real, and not someone posing? Seriously...send a VIN?

 

M&Ms perhaps? LOL

 

The noise just started, have had the truck since September of 2020. Looks like I'll have to "go in."
Anyone successfully take parts of the dash off without causing more issues?

 

If you can pinpoint the area you might have better luck. The center stack/touchscreen area comes off pretty simply, I believe the cluster does as well. I’d also check under the wiper cowl outside for good measure. Debris tends to collect there.