Passenger Seat Headrest Rattles
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Passenger Seat Headrest Rattles
It's driving me nuts. $100K car with build quality issues. I should have bought something made in Germany instead of Alabama I guess. There were a couple of rubber and plastic panels on the side of the tailgate, left and right of the taillights, that weren't snapped in properly too. Looks like they're there to prevent water from getting in. I managed to fix those myself anyways.
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Service scheduled for Friday and they're giving me a loaner to drive. There was a two to three week wait for service on my Genesis and no loaner or concierge because I live more than 30 miles away. So far so good... I hate to leave it there though. It's really fun to drive. Just have to turn the radio up so I can't hear the rattle. LOL
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It's driving me nuts. $100K car with build quality issues. I should have bought something made in Germany instead of Alabama I guess. There were a couple of rubber and plastic panels on the side of the tailgate, left and right of the taillights, that weren't snapped in properly too. Looks like they're there to prevent water from getting in. I managed to fix those myself anyways.
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As do I... I searched the forums for "squeak", "rattle" and "wind noise" and it's clearly not an Alabama-related issue. The ones from Germany also have these problems.
EDIT, for example: https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...s-service.html
EDIT, for example: https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...s-service.html
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The complexity of integrating a supply base with corporate engineering and plant assembly for a new vehicle is far beyond what most realize. Everyone has launch issues, everywhere. 2nd or 3rd year may be expected to be progressively higher quality for any new program. I always wait for at least the 2nd year for any OEM new vehicle, no matter who builds it or where.
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OK, fair enough, but when I hear about build quality issues with the G wagon after they've built 500,000 of them it makes me wonder if the problem isn't more at the management level. This is my first MB though so we'll see. Thus far the car is spectacular mechanically anyways. And I've been to github and looked at the Open Source Software they're using. Seems like most of it is running isolated in docker containers and uses industry standard APIs. So I'm pleased with that as well. It's just for the $100K I paid I expected there to be better QA. Panels that aren't snapped into place properly have nothing to do with supply chain issues.
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OK, fair enough, but when I hear about build quality issues with the G wagon after they've built 500,000 of them it makes me wonder if the problem isn't more at the management level. This is my first MB though so we'll see. Thus far the car is spectacular mechanically anyways. And I've been to github and looked at the Open Source Software they're using. Seems like most of it is running isolated in docker containers and uses industry standard APIs. So I'm pleased with that as well. It's just for the $100K I paid I expected there to be better QA. Panels that aren't snapped into place properly have nothing to do with supply chain issues.
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The service at MB of Houston North was first class. I ended waiting there a few hours while they disassembled the seat instead of using the loaner. They said headrest is held by a single pin that lets it wobble side to side. If there had been two pins to hold it in place it wouldn't be able to rotate like that. So there's your root cause: a design flaw. The fix was to apply felt tape to the surfaces that contact each other and reassemble. Headrest rattle is gone.
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The service at MB of Houston North was first class. I ended waiting there a few hours while they disassembled the seat instead of using the loaner. They said headrest is held by a single pin that lets it wobble side to side. If there had been two pins to hold it in place it wouldn't be able to rotate like that. So there's your root cause: a design flaw. The fix was to apply felt tape to the surfaces that contact each other and reassemble. Headrest rattle is gone.
Glad the outcome was good.
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I'm starting to think like other MB owners around here. Sure there are some minor annoyances but the car is just so much fun to drive I almost don't care.
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