If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will result, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more significant fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Mercedes Vito is thankfully more a indicator of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercedes Vito can come from built up 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 Vito : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mercedes Vito induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable 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 causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Mercedes Vito, 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 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 Vito that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Mercedes Vito.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercedes Vito : 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 likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercedes Vito is very often connected to this issue. Several solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to resolve the problem. 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 circumstance you would have to remove 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 regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Mercedes Vito closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercedes Vito : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take out the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mercedes Vito 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
