If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will results, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Bmw Serie 3 E92 is fortunately more a indication of a small correction or service, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 3 E92 can come from accumulated 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 Bmw Serie 3 E92 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 3 E92 triggered 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects 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 circumstance, open the trunk of your Bmw Serie 3 E92, verify 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 3 E92 that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Bmw Serie 3 E92.
Noise in the trunk of my Bmw Serie 3 E92 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 3 E92 is very often connected to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you according 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 mechanism with thick grease is enough to fix the problem. 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 permits 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. Don’t forget to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Bmw Serie 3 E92 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Bmw Serie 3 E92 : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Bmw Serie 3 E92 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define the noise. If this is your situation, 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 problematic situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
