If you acknowledge a noise on your automobile, 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 symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Alfa Romeo 147 is fortunately more a sign of a small correction or fix, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 147 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 Alfa Romeo 147 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 147 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a automobile 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 problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Alfa Romeo 147, examine the state 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 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 Alfa Romeo 147 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Alfa Romeo 147.
Noise in the trunk of my Alfa Romeo 147 : 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 likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 147 is very often linked to this problem. Different 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 appropriate to resolve the issue. 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 remove the cover that allows 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Alfa Romeo 147 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Alfa Romeo 147 : 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. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 147 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 problematic case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
