If you notice a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will results, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or service, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen 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 Giulietta 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 Alfa Romeo Giulietta : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta generated 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 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 check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta, examine 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 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 Giulietta that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Alfa Romeo Giulietta.
Noise in the trunk of my Alfa Romeo Giulietta : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta is very often linked to this problem. Different solutions are available to you depending on 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 system with thick grease is good enough 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 circumstance you would have to take out 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Alfa Romeo Giulietta : 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 made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 disturbing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
