If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Toyota Avalon is thankfully more a sign of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Avalon 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 Avalon : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Toyota Avalon generated 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Toyota Avalon, examine the condition 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 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 Toyota Avalon that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Toyota Avalon.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Avalon : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Avalon is very frequently connected to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough to resolve the problem. 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 off the cover that allows 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Toyota Avalon closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Avalon : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the technique 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Avalon linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
