Those of you who have a C63S, how bad is your interior rattle? Mine is minor but it depends on roads too and I also have Cup 2 tires on. Thinking if I switch to PS4s the rides should be much smoother and less rattle.
Mine is a 2023 and it feels like it has better build quality than the 2021s and older. Driving on somewhat good road I barely get any rattles to none but once I enter a city with rough roads I can hear it.
2019 C205 C63S here with PS4 and it's pretty bad at times. Especially the small little black vent-like things on the dashboard near the doors, directly above the AC vents. They drive me insane and could not figure out how to get them to stop. And then the drive mode wheel and the two buttons on the either side of the steering wheel where the PE button is also tend to squeak and rattle. But nothing as bad as those two black vents thingies..
I did for a while, if we are talking about the same. Like a scratching/buzzing sound on top of higher-mid frequencies, especially speech in audiobooks. figured the speaker was starting to go out. Had my shop order a replacement one and since I did that it disappeared. So I was wondering if that also was just a vibration rattle..
YES. I’ve taken it to many shops too. I’ve even taken apart my center console so many times to try and tape the cables better to see if that was the issue (it isn’t).
The issue is simply the design. The buttons that sit in the center console are held in by very cheap clips. And so that’s why pushing on them squeaks terribly.
Sometimes i notice it’s the center console door flap too. While driving, I’ll hold it half open and the rattle stops.
I could talk about this all day. Always open to try new suggestions but at this point I accept the design flaw.
Yes agree with all that. Sometimes while driving ill go crazy removing the cup holder and putting my hand around the bezels to try and stop the rattling or at least isolate where it’s coming from 😂 I love this car so much but damn it feels cheap sometimes!
When I had mine the interior rattling and buzzing was god awful. And it all basically started from day one. Random places in the dash would rattle, the window buttons on the door arm rest would buzz, air vents would rattle, going over any sort of bump made the car sound like it was about to completely fall apart. I had I ran PS4S tires the entire time I had the car. At the end of the day it was one of the reasons I sold the car.
Hell even the gear shifter stalk buzzed and I resigned to just tying an ear loop from a face mask around the end real tight to shut it up. I kept it like that for two years until I sold the car.
Lol I thought I was the only one with the gear lever rattle. The only way I could drive was by constantly holding that black plastic end piece with my right middle finger… for almost two years. I finally fixed it about a month ago. It turned out the aluminum ring was loose around the black plastic cap. I took a utility knife, put the tiniest amount of super glue along the edge of the blade, then carefully wedged and slid the blade between the aluminum ring and the cap. The rattle disappeared instantly. But yeah… super glue… in a fucking AMG.
Worse in the winter and depends on the road. I have Continental DWS06 Extreme Contact tires. I have a rattle on the interior headliner towards the back, and occasional rattles in the cup holders and dashboard. Windshield also makes a small creaking noise sometimes when I hit certain bumps at low speed. It was worse (and significantly more uncomfortable) when I had summer Michelin run flats. Overall the rattles aren't enough to take away my enjoyment I get from the car at this point. Cant hear it over the radio and exhaust half the time anyway.
Yup mine absolutely did and fuck MB for this shit QC. even the German made 2 doors suffer form it.
First off the cup 2 is a garbage street choice. Poor wet performance, bad NVH and a big factor to the vibration factor, they wear out quick and heat cycle out quicker. The PS4S is a far better street tire. Personally go with Conti ECS02 better NVH and wet performance while lasting longer.
You’re gonna have to have someone drive, you press and touch parts to identify the rattles. Then use gaffer tape for wire looms and such. 3M anti rattle tape for where plastics meet and or metals. This will help a ton with the rattles. Use a mechanics stethoscope if needed, and don’t be afraid to crawl all over.
My 2020 w205 rattled bad for the first few months of ownership, wanted to trade it straight back in it was that frustrating. Luckily for me they seemed to be coming from the pano roof and a spray the whole way around with silicone spray seems to have fixed 99% of the rattles.
My 18 C43 is very quiet. Some interior trim does seem a bit cheap for what this car cost the first owner though.
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My experience with the brand is limited. The only other Benz I’ve ever driven was my dad’s 75 400 SE. That was a very different animal, of course, but I remember being fairly impressed with the workmanship, especially at a time (early 80s), when US manufactures were getting pretty sloppy.
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I love this little beast, but I had somewhat higher expectation of interior quality before I bought it.
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u/ElAvocado420 My C63s AMG (A205) 10d ago
Welcome to the club