If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Giulia is luckily more a indicator of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Giulia 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 Alfa Romeo Giulia : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Giulia induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Giulia, check the state of the gasket that runs 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 difference. 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 Alfa Romeo Giulia that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Alfa Romeo Giulia.
Noise in the trunk of my Alfa Romeo Giulia : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, 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 likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Giulia is very often related to this issue. Different 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 appropriate to fix the issue. 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 remove 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Giulia closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Alfa Romeo Giulia : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released the license plate. Sadly, 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 Alfa Romeo Giulia linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
