If you find out a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will happen, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Acura RDX is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Acura RDX 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 Acura RDX : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Acura RDX generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Acura RDX, 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 improvement. 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 Acura RDX that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Acura RDX.
Noise in the trunk of my Acura RDX : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, 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 probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Acura RDX is very often linked to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to fix the trouble. 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 circumstance 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Acura RDX closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Acura RDX : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 Acura RDX 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 take out the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more disturbing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
