If you notice a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more significant repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Alfa Romeo 159 is fortunately more a indicator of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose 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 159 can come from built up 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 159 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 159 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Alfa Romeo 159, check 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 improvement. 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 Alfa Romeo 159 that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Alfa Romeo 159.
Noise in the trunk of my Alfa Romeo 159 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 159 is very often relating to this issue. Different solutions are available 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 mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to solve the issue. 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 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, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Don’t forget to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Alfa Romeo 159 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Alfa Romeo 159 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo 159 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
