If you notice a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more critical fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Suzuki Grand Vitara is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Suzuki Grand Vitara can come from built up 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 Suzuki Grand Vitara : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Suzuki Grand Vitara triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car 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 collects 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 condition, open the trunk of your Suzuki Grand Vitara, verify the condition 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Suzuki Grand Vitara that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Suzuki Grand Vitara.
Noise in the trunk of my Suzuki Grand Vitara : 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 probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Suzuki Grand Vitara is very frequently related to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you according to 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 more than enough to fix the trouble. 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 will allow 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Suzuki Grand Vitara closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Suzuki Grand Vitara : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Suzuki Grand Vitara linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
