I have C200K auto. There is a clicking noise coming from the centre console where the gear shift is. It is like something is fouling something in the gearbox as it is tune with the speed of the car and not the engine speed. The noise disappears when I turn left. It only does it when the car is moving in gear, neutral and with the engine turned off. I can feel the clicking noise on the gearshift, Has anyone heard of this before?
rpe2
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timberman
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does it do this all the time or just when the car is hot?
there have been cases where the heat shield on the exhaust has been badly positioned and when it heats up and expands it starts to catch on the drive shaft causing said clicking noise
another cause can apparently be from the sound deadening material surrounding the gearbox which has weights or something attached, these can work loose and also cause the same problem (I'm not too sure how accurate this is as it was told to me by a Mercedes technician and I can't remember exactly what he said)
hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can jump in and clarify if this is possible or I'm just talking out of my ****
HTH
there have been cases where the heat shield on the exhaust has been badly positioned and when it heats up and expands it starts to catch on the drive shaft causing said clicking noise
another cause can apparently be from the sound deadening material surrounding the gearbox which has weights or something attached, these can work loose and also cause the same problem (I'm not too sure how accurate this is as it was told to me by a Mercedes technician and I can't remember exactly what he said)
hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can jump in and clarify if this is possible or I'm just talking out of my ****
HTH
Thanks, all, My mechanic has found out what the noise was. The blue clip which holds the handbrake cable away from the prop shaft was broken and the cable was resting on the shaft. The clip is between the heat shield and the body. Remove heat shield to repair, a couple of cable ties have done the trick. The clicking noise was a ribbed label on the shaft.
