If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will result, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Mitsubishi Eclipse is luckily more a indicator of a small correction or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Eclipse can come from built up 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Eclipse generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Mitsubishi Eclipse, examine 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 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Mitsubishi Eclipse.
Noise in the trunk of my Mitsubishi Eclipse : 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 likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Eclipse is very often linked to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you subject to 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 sufficient to fix the trouble. 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 strip off 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Mitsubishi Eclipse closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mitsubishi Eclipse : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the strategy 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 unpleasant case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
