If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will result, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Buick Encore is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or service, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Buick Encore 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 Buick Encore : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Buick Encore triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Buick Encore, 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 impact. 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 Buick Encore that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Buick Encore.
Noise in the trunk of my Buick Encore : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Buick Encore is very often linked to this trouble. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to resolve the problem. 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 strip off 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. Remember to verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Buick Encore closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Buick Encore : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the strategy 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Buick Encore linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 unpleasant case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
