If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will result, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Kia Sorento is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Kia Sorento can come from built up 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 Kia Sorento : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Kia Sorento created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a vehicle 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 accumulates 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 condition, open the trunk of your Kia Sorento, verify the condition 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Kia Sorento that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Kia Sorento.
Noise in the trunk of my Kia Sorento : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Kia Sorento is very often connected to this problem. Several solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough 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 take out the cover that enables access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, simply 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 looking at the trunk of your Kia Sorento closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Kia Sorento : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 Kia Sorento 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
