If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will occur, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more significant repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Kia Cee D is thankfully more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Kia Cee D 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 Kia Cee D : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Kia Cee D triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Kia Cee D, verify 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 difference. 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 Kia Cee D that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Kia Cee D.
Noise in the trunk of my Kia Cee D : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Kia Cee D is very often connected to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to fix 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 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, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. You should examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Kia Cee D closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Kia Cee D : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Kia Cee D linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify the noise. If this is your situation, 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
