If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will occur, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Chevrolet Trax is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Chevrolet Trax can come from accumulated dirt, the problem 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 Trax : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Trax generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Chevrolet Trax, examine 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 difference. 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 Trax that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Chevrolet Trax.
Noise in the trunk of my Chevrolet Trax : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Trax is very frequently relating to this problem. Some 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 enough to fix the problem. 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Chevrolet Trax closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chevrolet Trax : 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. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Chevrolet Trax 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 case, 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 unpleasant case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
