If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will results, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more significant repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Mitsubishi Lancer is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Lancer 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 Mitsubishi Lancer : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Lancer generated 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 trouble causes 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 Mitsubishi Lancer, verify 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Lancer that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Mitsubishi Lancer.
Noise in the trunk of my Mitsubishi Lancer : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Lancer is very frequently relating to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you according 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 sufficient to resolve the problem. 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 case you would have to take out the cover that allows 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Mitsubishi Lancer closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mitsubishi Lancer : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Mitsubishi Lancer linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your case, 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 problematic case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
