If you find out a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will happen, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Cadillac ATS is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Cadillac ATS can come from built up dirt, the issue 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 Cadillac ATS : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Cadillac ATS induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue causes 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 Cadillac ATS, 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 Cadillac ATS that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Cadillac ATS.
Noise in the trunk of my Cadillac ATS : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Cadillac ATS is very often related to this issue. Several solutions are available to you according 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 good enough to fix 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 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 regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Cadillac ATS closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Cadillac ATS : 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 swap is made, to remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out the license plate. Sadly, 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 Cadillac ATS linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your situation, 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
