If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will result, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Chevrolet Impala is thankfully more a indication of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Chevrolet Impala 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 Impala : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Impala 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers 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 Impala, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Impala that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Chevrolet Impala.
Noise in the trunk of my Chevrolet Impala : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Impala is very often relating to this trouble. Different solutions are available 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 good enough to eliminate 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Chevrolet Impala closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chevrolet Impala : 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. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Impala linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
