If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will result, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more critical repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Mercedes Gla is fortunately more a sign of a small correction or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercedes Gla 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 Gla : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Gla induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers 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 Gla, examine the condition 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Gla that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Mercedes Gla.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Gla : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Gla is very often linked to this issue. Several solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to eliminate the problem. Secondly, it is also possible 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 will allow 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Mercedes Gla closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Gla : 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 take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Gla linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
