If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will happen, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more significant fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Mercedes Sprinter is thankfully more a signal of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercedes Sprinter can come from built up 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 Sprinter : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Sprinter caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a car 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 trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Mercedes Sprinter, 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 improvement. 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 Sprinter that is related 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 Sprinter.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Sprinter : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of 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 Sprinter is very frequently related to this trouble. Some solutions are available 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 enough to fix 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 out 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. You should check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Mercedes Sprinter closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Sprinter : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the technique 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Sprinter linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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.
