If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more critical fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Mercedes Slk is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercedes Slk 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 Slk : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Slk triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile 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 issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Mercedes Slk, check 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 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 Slk 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 Slk.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Slk : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Slk is very often relating to this issue. Some solutions are available to you according 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 eliminate the issue. 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 off the cover that enables 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. Remember to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Mercedes Slk closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Slk : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Slk linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your case, 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 case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
