If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will occur, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more critical restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Opel Zafira 3 is luckily more a sign of a small correction or fix, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Zafira 3 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 Opel Zafira 3 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Opel Zafira 3 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a car 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 trouble causes 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 Opel Zafira 3, examine 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 impact. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Zafira 3 that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Opel Zafira 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Zafira 3 : 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 likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Zafira 3 is very frequently relating to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you subject to 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 good enough to solve the issue. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 out 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Opel Zafira 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Zafira 3 : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to remove the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out the license plate. Unfortunately, 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Zafira 3 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 remove 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.
