If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will result, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more critical repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Mercedes Benz S Class is thankfully more a indication of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate 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 S 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 S Class : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Benz S Class generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a 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 check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Mercedes Benz S Class, 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 difference. 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 S Class that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Mercedes Benz S Class.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Benz S Class : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Benz S Class is very often linked to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is enough to fix the trouble. 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 case you would have to take off the cover that enables 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Mercedes Benz S Class closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Benz S Class : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Benz S Class linked to a rivet, you will need to check 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 disturbing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
