If you acknowledge a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will results, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more critical restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Mercedes Actros is thankfully more a indication of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercedes Actros can come from accumulated dirt, the trouble 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 Actros : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Actros triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable that on a car 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 trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Mercedes Actros, verify the state of the gasket that goes 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Actros that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Mercedes Actros.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Actros : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Actros is very often linked to this trouble. Different solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to resolve the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which case you would have to take out the cover that will allow access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Mercedes Actros closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Actros : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release the license plate. Unfortunately, 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 Actros linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your situation, you will have to remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more disturbing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
