If you pay attention to a noise on your car, 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 sign of a more critical repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Suzuki Jimny is luckily more a sign of a small correction or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen 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 Suzuki Jimny 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 Suzuki Jimny : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Suzuki Jimny induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Suzuki Jimny, 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 impact. 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 Jimny that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Suzuki Jimny.
Noise in the trunk of my Suzuki Jimny : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Suzuki Jimny is very frequently 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 quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to solve 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 circumstance you would have to strip 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Suzuki Jimny closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Suzuki Jimny : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Suzuki Jimny linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define the noise. If this is your situation, 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 situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
