If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will result, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Alfa Romeo 156 is thankfully more a indicator of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 156 can come from accumulated dirt, the issue 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 156 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 156 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 issue causes 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 Alfa Romeo 156, examine the condition 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 Alfa Romeo 156 that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Alfa Romeo 156.
Noise in the trunk of my Alfa Romeo 156 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, 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 likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 156 is very often relating to this issue. Several solutions are existing 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 good enough to fix 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 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 relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Alfa Romeo 156 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Alfa Romeo 156 : 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 swap is done, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 156 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 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.
