1994 nissan primera dashboard noise

nissan primera 1994 2.0 sgx hi love the videos i saw on youtube, very helpful. i have a problem with my car, as above. the dashboard has a major squeak. both side, and is intermittent. sometimes it’s worse than others and then just disapears for no reason? not sure what is causing it, but sounds like an old iron frame bed that need the springs oiling. lol. hope you can help. thx michelle”

Ok, the dash unit is basically a bunch of plastic stuck on a really cheaply made small metal braced frame. Of course there’s nothing in there to oil, generally the plastic just gets old and creaks (plastic is called plastic because of the plasticizers in the plastic, which age over time and are not longer elastic so they make creaking noises.) About the only thing you can do is to attempt to place rubber shims between the plastic dash and the metal of the car at edges and corners. I use cut off pieces of old inner tubes and wedge them in different places on my own old cars. It’s pretty much hit and miss, but if you hit the right spots, the creaking will go away.