If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will occur, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Porsche Cayenne is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or service, rather than a difficult 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 Porsche Cayenne 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 Porsche Cayenne : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Porsche Cayenne created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Porsche Cayenne, 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 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 Porsche Cayenne that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Porsche Cayenne.
Noise in the trunk of my Porsche Cayenne : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Porsche Cayenne is very frequently related to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you subject 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 solve the problem. 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 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. Make sure to verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Porsche Cayenne closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Porsche Cayenne : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take out 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Porsche Cayenne linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
