If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more important repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Cadillac XTS is thankfully more a indicator of a small correction or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen 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 XTS can come from accumulated 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 XTS : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Cadillac XTS induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 issue triggers 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 Cadillac XTS, 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 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 Cadillac XTS 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 XTS.
Noise in the trunk of my Cadillac XTS : 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. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Cadillac XTS 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 system with thick grease is good enough to eliminate the trouble. 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 strip off 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Cadillac XTS closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Cadillac XTS : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Cadillac XTS linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
