If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will results, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Lancia Ypsilon is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Lancia Ypsilon 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 Lancia Ypsilon : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Lancia Ypsilon triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem 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 Lancia Ypsilon, examine 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 difference. 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 Lancia Ypsilon that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Lancia Ypsilon.
Noise in the trunk of my Lancia Ypsilon : 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 possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Lancia Ypsilon is very often related to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to solve 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 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Lancia Ypsilon closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Lancia Ypsilon : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Lancia Ypsilon linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
