If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will occur, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more critical restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Toyota Sequoia is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a difficult one. To support 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 Toyota Sequoia 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 Sequoia : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Toyota Sequoia caused 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects 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 situation, open the trunk of your Toyota Sequoia, 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 improvement. 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 Toyota Sequoia 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 Toyota Sequoia.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Sequoia : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Sequoia is very often linked to this problem. Several solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to eliminate the issue. 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 circumstance you would have to remove the cover that will allow 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Toyota Sequoia closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Sequoia : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Sequoia linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
