If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more significant repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Fiat Grande Punto is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Fiat Grande Punto 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 Fiat Grande Punto : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Fiat Grande Punto 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 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 verify if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Fiat Grande Punto, check 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 improvement. 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 Fiat Grande Punto that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Fiat Grande Punto.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Grande Punto : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat Grande Punto is very frequently connected to this issue. Several solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to resolve the issue. 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 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Fiat Grande Punto closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Grande Punto : 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 made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Grande Punto linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
