If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will happen, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more critical restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Mito is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Mito 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 Alfa Romeo Mito : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Mito 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 top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Mito, 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 difference. 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 Mito that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Alfa Romeo Mito.
Noise in the trunk of my Alfa Romeo Mito : 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 alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Mito is very often relating to this trouble. Different solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough to resolve the trouble. 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 remove 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Alfa Romeo Mito closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Alfa Romeo Mito : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to remove the old one the technique 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Alfa Romeo Mito 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 remove 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
