If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Mercedes Classe G 3 is fortunately more a indication of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercedes Classe G 3 can come from accumulated dirt, the issue can also come from a loose lock and finally, it can even come from a simple rivet that sits inside your bumper.
Noise in the trunk Mercedes Classe G 3 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Classe G 3 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Mercedes Classe G 3, examine the state of the gasket that runs around the entire tailgate and clean it with a wet/soap cloth, dry the whole thing and try to close the trunk and take a dentred road to see the impact. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Classe G 3 that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Mercedes Classe G 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Classe G 3 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Classe G 3 is very frequently connected to this issue. Some solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to resolve the issue. Secondly, it is also plausible that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which circumstance you would have to strip off the cover that allows access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Make sure to examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Mercedes Classe G 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Classe G 3 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released the license plate. Sadly, it can happen that part of the rivet falls into the hole of the bumper and it will therefore wander inside the bumper and can generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Classe G 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define the noise. If this is your case, you will have to take out the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more unpleasant case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
