If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will result, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more significant restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Subaru Crosstrek is fortunately more a signal of a small correction or fix, rather than a difficult 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 Subaru Crosstrek 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 Subaru Crosstrek : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Subaru Crosstrek generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a automobile 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem 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 Subaru Crosstrek, examine the state 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 Subaru Crosstrek that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Subaru Crosstrek.
Noise in the trunk of my Subaru Crosstrek : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Subaru Crosstrek is very frequently connected to this problem. Some solutions are available to you according to 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 appropriate 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 circumstance you would have to take out 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Subaru Crosstrek closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Subaru Crosstrek : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to take off the old one the technique 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Subaru Crosstrek 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 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
