Chirping sound (cricket in my dash)

Hey,


I bought my 3rd gen Prius (2009 EU) two weeks ago and I can hear a strange chirping sound coming from the dash (driver side) driving on the highway. It can be heard on lower speeds too, but it's really random and much much quieter. On high (constant) speeds (120-130 kmh :: 75-80 mph) it become annoying. When cruise control sets the speed the sound appears nearly instantly and stays for a couple of minutes or until I change speed and comes back when speed is set again.

Here is a video, so you could hear it live (noise fades in the last second):

Chirping sound is not new on this forum, but the video was removed from YouTube and I'm not sure if my problem is the same as that one (not to mention that the symptoms are a bit different too). I don't have any technical skills and local service was unable to identify the source of the problem so it'd great to hear from someone who had successfully won a fight with a 'cricket' like mine.

Do you have any tips? Thanks in advance!

Oh, and sorry for my English - it's not my native language, I hope you can still understood my though​

 

Thanks for the replies!

It's hard to record that voice, that was the best I could do to show you. There's only 110 000 km ~ 68350 miles in this beauty.

Thanks for the tip BZzap. I did use the Search function and I did read many of them but most of them had no (active) video so I could check the noise or the symptoms are different or not the same sound I hear. Finding out the right English word for my problem was the first big challenge for me, but I believe I managed to found it. Dash squeaking seems to be a really common problem with these cars but this is something different . I was hoping that creating a new thread could be a nice way to find somebody who had already identified the source of this sound.

My first thought was the same you mentioned: it comes from the fan and that's why I turned them off, but it did not solve my problem and that was the time when I got desperate. This desperation became more and more intense after listening that annoying noise for an hour or so.

I need to test my car a little bit more and find out properly which environmental variables make these sound appear. For now - it only troubles me on the highway.

 

Thanks for the video and confirming that inactive vid showed the same sound as ours! I saw that fix, but I wasn't sure if it's worth trying to do that thing (since I don't know anything about cars). I'll try to understand that in my language, look if I'm able to do it and test it as soon as possible. I'll get back with the results! (I'm not sure how long will it take, but I'm sure it'll take some time, sorry)