If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will happen, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Buick Regal is thankfully more a signal of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Buick Regal 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 Regal : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Buick Regal induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car 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 triggers 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 Buick Regal, verify the state 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 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 Regal that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Buick Regal.
Noise in the trunk of my Buick Regal : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Buick Regal is very frequently linked to this trouble. Different solutions are existing 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 system with thick grease is enough to solve 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 will allow 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Buick Regal closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Buick Regal : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Buick Regal linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
