If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more significant repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Chevrolet Express is luckily more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Chevrolet Express 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 Chevrolet Express : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Express triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue causes 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 Chevrolet Express, 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 impact. 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 Chevrolet Express that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Chevrolet Express.
Noise in the trunk of my Chevrolet Express : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Express is very frequently relating to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is good enough to solve 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 strip off the cover that allows 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 verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Chevrolet Express closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chevrolet Express : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the process 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Express linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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.
