Monkey177

There's a weird noise in the interior that's coming from behind the passenger cabin area...sounds like it's coming from behind the rear panel. It's not quite a rattle. Sounds like some electronics or something making an extremely rapid light ticking/tapping noise. It's always there while I'm driving or even just stopped and idle.

Has anyone else been hearing the same thing?

ShervSL500AMG

Yeah I get that sometimes in mine too, I was told it is from the hard top and its the rear strut apparantly and it just needs to be slicked up a bit. Hope that helps.

Monkey177

You mean rear strut as in the suspension?

ShervSL500AMG

The rear strut for the hardtop, right behind the passanger seat headrest. The Black arm thing.

mrlancer

I have an 07 SL550 that I just got, and I have two issues that I brought it into the dealer and so far no luck.

1. rattle noise at the driver door pillar
2. ticking/clicking noise when turning at slow speed either backing up or forward.

anybody know anything about this?

kkwmjw1

I also have 2007 and had a rattle in the front where the top meets the windshield frame. Dealer put some vaseline like lube and the rattle is gone. Now it rattles behind my head when top is up. Gonna check the previous posters idea.

mrlancer

rattle at door pillar turned out to be the door latch needed an adjustment - apparently this is a fairly common thing - latch loosens up over time and the door doesn't quite close all the way so with the top down it rattles. Once they adjusted it was fine.

The ticking noise was something in the steering that also disappeared when fixed.

The driver's seat then started making noises like an old rocking chair. They were unable/unwilling to fix, and I got MB to buy it back. just bought an '09 with 1800 miles on it - much nicer looking car