If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will happen, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more critical fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Acura ILX is thankfully more a indicator of a small correction or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Acura ILX 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 Acura ILX : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Acura ILX caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern 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 examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Acura ILX, check 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 Acura ILX that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Acura ILX.
Noise in the trunk of my Acura ILX : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Acura ILX is very frequently relating to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to eliminate the problem. 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 take 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 examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Acura ILX closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Acura ILX : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 Acura ILX linked to a rivet, you will need to examine 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
