If you acknowledge a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will result, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Opel Vivaro is fortunately more a sign of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Vivaro can come from accumulated dirt, the trouble 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 Opel Vivaro : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Opel Vivaro created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Opel Vivaro, verify 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Vivaro that is relating 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 Opel Vivaro.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Vivaro : 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 probably alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Vivaro is very often relating to this trouble. Different solutions are available to you depending on 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 appropriate to eliminate the trouble. 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 permits 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Opel Vivaro closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Vivaro : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Opel Vivaro linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 unpleasant case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
