If you acknowledge a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will happen, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Mercedes Sprinter 2 is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen 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 2 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 2 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Sprinter 2 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Mercedes Sprinter 2, check 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 difference. 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 2 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 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Sprinter 2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Sprinter 2 is very frequently related to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to fix the trouble. 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 circumstance you would have to take out 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. Make sure to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Mercedes Sprinter 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 Sprinter 2 : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 Sprinter 2 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 disturbing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
