# Service bulletin LI46\-40\-P\-047549

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- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10032709
- Published by NHTSA: 2010\-05\-01
- Manufacturer's number: LI46\-40\-P\-047549
- Manufacturer's date: 2009\-08\-13
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY

## NHTSA's summary

MERCEDES: CRACKING/CREAKING NOISES FROM FRONT AXLE WHEN VEHICLE IS SUBJECT TO TORSION OR WHEN STEERING WHEEL IS TURNED. THIS IS MAINLY HEARD WHEN THE VEHICLE IS STATIONARY OR WHEN THE VEHICLE IS MOVING SLOWLY. RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE FRAME TYPE INTEGRAL SUPPORT AND STEERING PLATE CAN CAUSE THE PLATE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE FRAME TYPE INTEGRAL SUPPORT OF THE FRONT AXLE, WHICH IN TURN CAUSES NOISES. \*PE

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Transmission and driveline, Axle

## Vehicles listed

- 1995 to 1999 MERCEDES BENZ E320
- 2003 to 2009 MERCEDES BENZ E320
- 2003 to 2009 MERCEDES BENZ E500
- 2007 to 2009 MERCEDES BENZ E55
- 2005 to 2009 MERCEDES BENZ E550
- 2005 to 2006 MERCEDES BENZ E63
- 2003 to 2006 MERCEDES\-BENZ AMG E55
- 2003 to 2004 MERCEDES\-BENZ AMG E63
- 2007 to 2009 MERCEDES\-BENZ AMG E63
- 2003 to 2010 MERCEDES\-BENZ E350

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