Rear Sunshade Clicking - Fixed!!!

[Judah Vee]

AAAAAAnnnnd mine now started doing this.... I love this forum!!! Thank you for the write up as now I dont have to worry about it until I want too.

 

[John1951]

My daughter and I just fixed mine in 20 minutes. We only disconnected the power, I don't use it and don't want to pay $800 in parts and $400 for labor when I just wanted the noise to stop. We couldn't find any instructions on how to do this without replacing something or taking parts out, so we used several instructions and improvised. We did not have to take anything out and we didn't even have to use tools! I will attach pictures to show what we did.
1. Lower the seats by pulling on the loop by the top of the seat belt.

2. The carpet covering is connected in 3 places in the front and the connectors just pop in and out. In the back there is a loop where a latch from the side bolster hooks so complete the next step before attempting to remove the carpet piece.

3. Gently but firmly pull the side bolsters (the plastic coverings just behind the windows) to unhook them from the side of the car. We found it easiest to both unhook and rehook if you start from the back and work towards the side windows. They are designed to pop in and out but are sturdier than the ones holding the carpet in place.
We didn't take these completely off but removed them just enough to unhook from the back of the carpet piece.

4. The carpet covering should now side of easily, if you didn't remove the bolsters completely like we didn't, then you need to bow the carpet to remove it. The belts will be connected to this piece but can be tucked to the side so they don't get in the way.

5. Just in front of the shade is a power box with a white connector for the wires behind it. The are several such boxes under the carpet connecting to the speakers so double check that the only wires go to the shade before you disconnect them. You'll see in the picture that is the one just in front of the shade. To disconnect the wires is much like unhooking a phone line, push down on the small tab and pull back. Tuck the disconnected wire to the side.

6. Turn the car on and check if the shade functions. The wires shouldn't disable anything else so if anything else doesn't work, like the back up camera, then you probably got the wrong wire. But that's an easy fix as you only need to plug it back into the box.

7. Follow steps 1-4 in reverse to put it all back together, remember to hook the latch on the bolster back through the loop at the back of the carpet and to work from back to front when reattaching the bolsters so you can see where they latch.

The image show the loop to fold the seats down, the fasteners at the front of the carpet, the side bolsters half removed, what you should see after the carpet is removed, a close up of the box with the white wire connector that needs to be disconnected (you can just barelysee it behind the box).
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Hope this helps!

 

[John1951]

This was very very helpful and worked perfectly. Not sure how you got it done in 20 minutes... but I'm 70. It took me a while. I snuck my camera in under the rear carpet and was able to take a picture and pull the connector without removing the entire deck. Appreciate your great explanation and pictures

 

[john masti]

My rear sunshade started clicking and making racket when putting it in reverse or putting it down. It goes up fine and down fine but instead of stopping the motor will sit there and click for a while and then stop.

Not wanting to pay almost $800 for the whole assembly, I found a parts diagram and the motor is available sepearately....

Anyone have one of these apart or have just the motor replaced? The few failures I've found onine they replace the whole thing either under warranty or for $1k...

I am having a loud banging noise in my 2012 lincoln mks. Its not the the sunshade. I tore the backseat out and took apart the white plug that went to the sunshade motor. It is still making the loud banging. It's driving me crazy. Anyone out there with the same problem? Anyone have a solution. I need help

 

[john masti]

I am having a loud banging noise in my 2012 lincoln mks. It's not the sunshade motor. I took out the rear seat and disconnected the white plug to the sunshade motor. The loud banging noise was still there. It's driving me crazy. Does anyone out there have the same problem? Does anyone have a solution? I need help.

 

[john masti]

I am having a loud banging noise in my 2012 lincoln mks. It's not the sunshade motor. I took out the rear seat and disconnected the white plug to the sunshade motor. The loud banging noise was still there. It's driving me crazy. Does anyone out there have the same problem? Does anyone have a solution? I need help.

 

[Walter Chow]

Thank you for this write up and easy instructions. My wife also thanks you as she is no longer pulled over by police wondering if she has kidnapped anyone and placed them into her trunk.
For no reason this started on her SHO too and she never uses the rear sunshade. Other than that, the car is great and only has 85000km or 51000 miles on her 2010.

 

[kryptto]

Thank you for this write up and easy instructions. My wife also thanks you as she is no longer pulled over by police wondering if she has kidnapped anyone and placed them into her trunk.
For no reason this started on her SHO too and she never uses the rear sunshade. Other than that, the car is great and only has 85000km or 51000 miles on her 2010.

I am so glad to hear stories from people in this forum who do a quick search and get answers! glad for you!

 

[Jamanson]

I seem to be in the small boat here of loving the sun shade up. I found another comment in the form that was linked above that solved the issue without disconnecting the whole wiring harness. My sun shade motor just started to make the clicking last night probably due to the gear finally snapping after 14 years. It is a 2010 Taurus sho and there is one wire to cut. The bottom 4th from the left 3rd from the right. This is the wire that puts down the shade every time you put the vehicle in reverse. Cutting this lets me keep the shade up indefinitely. I wish I had known this years ago because I always want the shade up. The color may very depending on the year but the location on mine was the same as the 2013 I found in the other post, just different colors. I checked mine with a meter before cutting, that is why you see a partially stripped wire that is also cut in my picture. Hope this helps someone avoid tearing deep into it to get to the motor. It might have to happen some day anyways, but today is not that day!

 

[kryptto]

I seem to be in the small boat here of loving the sun shade up. I found another comment in the form that was linked above that solved the issue without disconnecting the whole wiring harness. My sun shade motor just started to make the clicking last night probably due to the gear finally snapping after 14 years. It is a 2010 Taurus sho and there is one wire to cut. The bottom 4th from the left 3rd from the right. This is the wire that puts down the shade every time you put the vehicle in reverse. Cutting this lets me keep the shade up indefinitely. I wish I had known this years ago because I always want the shade up. The color may very depending on the year but the location on mine was the same as the 2013 I found in the other post, just different colors. I checked mine with a meter before cutting, that is why you see a partially stripped wire that is also cut in my picture. Hope this helps someone avoid tearing deep into it to get to the motor. It might have to happen some day anyways, but today is not that day!

The reason this forums is awesome- great share

 

[Jamanson]

The reason this forums is awesome- great share

I hope it helps someone who is searching for how to do it. One wire clipped and you'll never look back. The wire may be a different color depending on your year, but should be the same position on the wiring harness.

 

[SHO'd ya NC]

Thanks for the writeup Miss Wendy! That was extremely helpful. In fact, I found that with your picture of where the connector is, I didn't even need to take the side bolsters off. I was able to pop off the carpet covering connectors then reach my hand in to disconnect it.

Much easier than other tutorials I read!

Thanks for that tid-bit of info. You saved me a bunch of time. It literally took me longer to get the carseats out! It took me one minute to pop off the 3 tabs, reach in and unplug it. Lifesaver met0722!!