Excessive Creaking?
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Excessive Creaking?
So I've been experiencing a lot of creaking, more so than cars I've driven before. Literally every part of the interior creaks, from door handles to instrument display to center console. This can happen when I'm moving it manually, while driving, or even after starting up and the air is running.
I'm about 8,500 miles in, and I realize some creaking will eventually happen especially under the Florida sun. But does anyone else have this problem? For a 60k car, I feel like this annoyance is a bit too much.
I'm about 8,500 miles in, and I realize some creaking will eventually happen especially under the Florida sun. But does anyone else have this problem? For a 60k car, I feel like this annoyance is a bit too much.
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Mine sounds like I have a tool box and fine china on the back seat and the front dash..I think they forgot there tools in the vehicle behind the body panels when they built it
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I haven't tried yet since I wanted to see if there was a tendency for it with other drivers. It's most prominent when I first get in, but after driving for a while the creaking tones down and really only occurs when I manually move it around. I'm guessing yours has no creaking at all?
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It's only got 1000 miles on it and so far no, but I'll pull the interior out hunting down creaks and rattles. Hate that. Ruins the whole driving experience. But that sort of thing is covered under warranty and they'll try to fix it.
I'll give you a tip. Before complaining about the rattles, take the car in for its next A/B/C service. When the MB corporate email survey comes, give the service 10's across the board. In the Comments section, mention your SA by name and compliment him/her and the dealership experience. Also, the dealership did not tell you to expect a survey. Make sure the answer about your overall service experience is a 10. (Anything under, even a 9, on that one question is a failed survey.
Now you're a member of the secret VIP club, and the SA will bend over backwards to help you. They live and die by those surveys, and a good one is a huge boost and affects their bonuses.
I'll give you a tip. Before complaining about the rattles, take the car in for its next A/B/C service. When the MB corporate email survey comes, give the service 10's across the board. In the Comments section, mention your SA by name and compliment him/her and the dealership experience. Also, the dealership did not tell you to expect a survey. Make sure the answer about your overall service experience is a 10. (Anything under, even a 9, on that one question is a failed survey.
Now you're a member of the secret VIP club, and the SA will bend over backwards to help you. They live and die by those surveys, and a good one is a huge boost and affects their bonuses.
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C300 S205 AMG, GLA 45 AMG
Sadly this vehicle is poor for NVH,
Creaks from door trims, Center console elbow rests, door frame mould seal upper,
Dash binnacle, dash center lower panel, to name but a few...
Suggest you empty and everything out to make sure it's not coins or something rattling under a seat or glove box.. Then list the apparent source, nature and environment under which each noise is apparent...
Unfortunately they can say they are all like that sir.. Because they all do to a varying degree ..
Personally I am making them address as many as they are willing and I 'like sort the rest myself...
The wife's GLA is tighter....
Creaks from door trims, Center console elbow rests, door frame mould seal upper,
Dash binnacle, dash center lower panel, to name but a few...
Suggest you empty and everything out to make sure it's not coins or something rattling under a seat or glove box.. Then list the apparent source, nature and environment under which each noise is apparent...
Unfortunately they can say they are all like that sir.. Because they all do to a varying degree ..
Personally I am making them address as many as they are willing and I 'like sort the rest myself...
The wife's GLA is tighter....
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Should be no creaking. Our SA plant developed the anti rattle & squeak kit for the W203 & ever since that our C Classes have been dead quiet including the W205. Where are all you folk. Are these all Tuscaloosa built cars?
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I get a bit of clicking from the comand screen on rough roads, a bit from the rubber stop of the tonneau cover when it's retracted but that's it.
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My car has been in the shop no less than 5 times for creaks, squeaks, and rattles.
I'm so close to taking the car to the dealer and parking it with the keys in the overnight return with a 'keep it' note on the windshield. This morning, the headliner, sunroof, the driver seat, dashboard, and backseat were all chattering. I've had the comand screen replaced - twice. The dashboard ripped apart three times, the back panel on the driver side replaced, the windshield wiper cover replaced, the passenger side b pillar replaced, the headliner ripped out and reinstalled, and more.
I'm very close to being completely done with this car. 1 year and 2 weeks in, and I'm disenchanted. Completely disappointed with the quality. Still fast, still great looking - but the interior rattles, the constantly dying door handle LEDs, and unreal wind noise in the cabin are pushing me away from the car, and the brand. The W213 better be a perfect F&^King car, or I'm going to Porsche or something else.
I'm so close to taking the car to the dealer and parking it with the keys in the overnight return with a 'keep it' note on the windshield. This morning, the headliner, sunroof, the driver seat, dashboard, and backseat were all chattering. I've had the comand screen replaced - twice. The dashboard ripped apart three times, the back panel on the driver side replaced, the windshield wiper cover replaced, the passenger side b pillar replaced, the headliner ripped out and reinstalled, and more.
I'm very close to being completely done with this car. 1 year and 2 weeks in, and I'm disenchanted. Completely disappointed with the quality. Still fast, still great looking - but the interior rattles, the constantly dying door handle LEDs, and unreal wind noise in the cabin are pushing me away from the car, and the brand. The W213 better be a perfect F&^King car, or I'm going to Porsche or something else.
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Mine was built in Alabama USA...I find the quality horrid as far as creaks and rattles..sometimes I wish I kept my Subaru STI.. Even that didn't rattle as much and the suspension was stiffer..my wife drives a Toyota Sienna minivan that get abused daily with kids and junk in and out all day, and that is tight as a drum.
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Major creaks from the door trim for me as well. I took it in to the dealer and they applied something on the seals that helped for a few weeks, but it eventually regressed back to the mean. I've purchased silicone rubber seal grease which was supposed to help but it didn't. Between the door seal creaks, wind noise at speeds as low as 35mph (dealer says it's normal) and the clattery engine sound (wrist pin issue I'm guessing), this is my first and likely last MB. It really is unfortunate as it is a beautiful design, but the overall quality ruined the experience.
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Major creaks from the door trim for me as well. I took it in to the dealer and they applied something on the seals that helped for a few weeks, but it eventually regressed back to the mean. I've purchased silicone rubber seal grease which was supposed to help but it didn't. Between the door seal creaks, wind noise at speeds as low as 35mph (dealer says it's normal) and the clattery engine sound (wrist pin issue I'm guessing), this is my first and likely last MB. It really is unfortunate as it is a beautiful design, but the overall quality ruined the experience.
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I agree that it is disheartening. I understand that no car manufacturer is perfect, but out of all of the vehicles that I have owned, this one has by far had the most issues at the 1 year mark. I'm sure that buying the first year of a new model is partly to blame but c'mon now, MB has been making cars for over a century. You would think they could do better than this.
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1000 miles on mine - no rattles at all. My C450 is a mid-Feb 2016 build - perhaps QC has improved with passage of time? Or perhaps the creaks and rattles will come out later?
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Yes I've been debating on taking it in but from what I've read, people are experiencing reduced power or fuel efficiency after the fix. That is not a compromise I'm willing to make, so I'm seeing how things work out for these rebuilt motors before my car has to go under the knife.
I agree that it is disheartening. I understand that no car manufacturer is perfect, but out of all of the vehicles that I have owned, this one has by far had the most issues at the 1 year mark. I'm sure that buying the first year of a new model is partly to blame but c'mon now, MB has been making cars for over a century. You would think they could do better than this.
All in all, take what you read with a grain of salt. Not every car, dealer, tech, customer etc. are the same. But refusing to have your car fixed when it clearly has a problem (and a big problem at that) isn't going to make it better. I know its hard to trust what you can't actually see, but the people that work on these cars, myself included, only want what is best for the car and the customer. I am only saying this because I have seen what happens when customers don't fix their cars and it isn't pretty.
