If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more significant fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Bmw Serie 1 E82 is luckily more a signal of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 1 E82 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 Bmw Serie 1 E82 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 1 E82 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile 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 trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Bmw Serie 1 E82, 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 difference. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 1 E82 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Bmw Serie 1 E82.
Noise in the trunk of my Bmw Serie 1 E82 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 1 E82 is very frequently related to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to fix the issue. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Bmw Serie 1 E82 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Bmw Serie 1 E82 : 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 made, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 1 E82 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 problematic case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
