If you acknowledge a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will results, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more critical repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Toyota Corolla is thankfully more a indicator of a small adjustment or service, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Corolla can come from accumulated dirt, the trouble can also come from a loose lock and finally, it can even come from a simple rivet that sits inside your bumper.
Noise in the trunk Toyota Corolla : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Toyota Corolla triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Toyota Corolla, check the state of the gasket that goes around the entire tailgate and clean it with a wet/soap cloth, dry the whole thing and try to close the trunk and take a dentred road to see the improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Corolla that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Toyota Corolla.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Corolla : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Corolla is very frequently related to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to solve the issue. Secondly, it is also conceivable that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which case you would have to remove the cover that enables access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. You should check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Toyota Corolla closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Corolla : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released the license plate. Unfortunately, it can happen that part of the rivet falls into the hole of the bumper and it will therefore wander inside the bumper and can generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Corolla linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify the noise. If this is your situation, you will have to remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more problematic situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
