If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will happen, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Toyota Auris is luckily more a signal of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Auris can come from accumulated 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 Toyota Auris : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Toyota Auris created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 builds up 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 condition, open the trunk of your Toyota Auris, 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 impact. 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 Toyota Auris that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Toyota Auris.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Auris : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Auris is very often connected to this problem. Different solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to solve 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 will allow access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Toyota Auris closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Auris : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the process 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Auris linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your case, 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 case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
