If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will results, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Kia Sedona is thankfully more a indication of a small correction or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Kia Sedona can come from built up dirt, the issue 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 Sedona : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Kia Sedona generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers 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 Kia Sedona, check 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Kia Sedona that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Kia Sedona.
Noise in the trunk of my Kia Sedona : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge 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 Kia Sedona is very often connected to this issue. 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 more than enough to resolve the problem. Secondly, it is also possible 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 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Kia Sedona closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Kia Sedona : 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 swap 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Kia Sedona linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, you will have to take out the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more unpleasant situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
