If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will results, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Fiat Punto Evo is luckily more a indication of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Fiat Punto Evo can come from built up dirt, the problem 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 Punto Evo : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Fiat Punto Evo induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable 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 problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Fiat Punto Evo, 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Punto Evo that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Fiat Punto Evo.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Punto Evo : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat Punto Evo is very often linked to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you according 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 appropriate to eliminate the issue. 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 circumstance you would have to remove 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Fiat Punto Evo closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Punto Evo : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Punto Evo linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 problematic situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
