If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will occur, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more critical fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Toyota Prius is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Prius can come from accumulated dirt, the problem 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 Prius : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Toyota Prius triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car 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 problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Toyota Prius, examine the state of the gasket that runs 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 difference. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Prius that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Toyota Prius.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Prius : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Prius is very often relating to this problem. Several solutions are existing 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 good enough to fix the trouble. Secondly, it is also plausible that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which circumstance you would have to take off the cover that permits 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. Make sure to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Toyota Prius closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Prius : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Prius linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your case, 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 case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
