If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will occur, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Mercedes Classe C 2 is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercedes Classe C 2 can come from built up dirt, the problem 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 C 2 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Classe C 2 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a vehicle that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Mercedes Classe C 2, examine the condition 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 improvement. 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 C 2 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Mercedes Classe C 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Classe C 2 : 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 likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Classe C 2 is very frequently connected to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you subject to 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 sufficient to resolve 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 circumstance you would have to take off the cover that permits 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Mercedes Classe C 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Classe C 2 : 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. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 C 2 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 embarrassing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.