If you pay attention to a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will result, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Buick Cascada is thankfully more a indication of a small correction or fix, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Buick Cascada can come from built up 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 Buick Cascada : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Buick Cascada generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a vehicle 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 problem 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 Buick Cascada, 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Buick Cascada that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Buick Cascada.
Noise in the trunk of my Buick Cascada : 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 probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Buick Cascada is very frequently connected to this problem. Several 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 sufficient to fix the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 out the cover that will allow 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Buick Cascada closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Buick Cascada : 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. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 Buick Cascada linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
