If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more significant restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Opel Meriva is luckily more a indication of a small correction or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Meriva can come from built up 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 Meriva : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Opel Meriva generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable that on a vehicle 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers 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 Meriva, 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Meriva that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Opel Meriva.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Meriva : 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 probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Meriva is very often linked to this issue. Several 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 sufficient to resolve the problem. 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 case you would have to strip off the cover that enables 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 examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Opel Meriva closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Meriva : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Meriva linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
