If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will result, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Chevrolet City Express is thankfully more a indication of a small correction or fix, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Chevrolet City Express can come from accumulated 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 Chevrolet City Express : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Chevrolet City Express created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Chevrolet City Express, check 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 Chevrolet City Express that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Chevrolet City Express.
Noise in the trunk of my Chevrolet City Express : 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 probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Chevrolet City Express is very often connected to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you subject 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 more than enough to solve the trouble. 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 off the cover that enables 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 check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Chevrolet City Express closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chevrolet City Express : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky 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 process 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Chevrolet City Express linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your case, you will have to remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more disturbing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
