If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will result, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more critical restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Chevrolet Bolt is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment 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 Chevrolet Bolt 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 Chevrolet Bolt : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Bolt 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble 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 Chevrolet Bolt, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Bolt that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Chevrolet Bolt.
Noise in the trunk of my Chevrolet Bolt : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Bolt is very frequently connected to this trouble. Some solutions are existing 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 solve the trouble. 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 case 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 examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Chevrolet Bolt closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chevrolet Bolt : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Bolt 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 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
