If you acknowledge a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will result, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your hyundai i40 is thankfully more a indicator of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your hyundai i40 can come from accumulated 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 hyundai i40 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your hyundai i40 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 problem causes 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 hyundai i40, check 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 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 hyundai i40 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a hyundai i40.
Noise in the trunk of my hyundai i40 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your hyundai i40 is very often linked to this problem. Some solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough 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 enables 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 looking at the trunk of your hyundai i40 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk hyundai i40 : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate change is done, 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your hyundai i40 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
