If you notice a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will happen, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more critical repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Opel Astra 5 is fortunately more a indicator of a small manipulation or service, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Astra 5 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 Opel Astra 5 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Opel Astra 5 caused 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 issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Opel Astra 5, verify the condition 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 Opel Astra 5 that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Opel Astra 5.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Astra 5 : 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 probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Astra 5 is very often connected to this issue. Some solutions are existing to you depending on 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 sufficient to fix 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 off the cover that allows 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Opel Astra 5 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Astra 5 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 Opel Astra 5 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define the noise. If this is your situation, 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
