If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will result, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Mercedes Benz GLC Class is fortunately more a signal of a small correction or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercedes Benz GLC Class 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 Benz GLC Class : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Benz GLC Class caused 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Mercedes Benz GLC Class, examine 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Benz GLC Class that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Mercedes Benz GLC Class.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Benz GLC Class : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Benz GLC Class is very frequently relating to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is good enough to eliminate the problem. 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 take off the cover that allows 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Mercedes Benz GLC Class closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Benz GLC Class : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the technique 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 Benz GLC Class linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, 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 problematic situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
