If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Fiat 500 L is fortunately more a signal of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Fiat 500 L can come from built up 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 Fiat 500 L : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Fiat 500 L generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, 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 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 examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Fiat 500 L, 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 difference. 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 Fiat 500 L that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Fiat 500 L.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat 500 L : 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 alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat 500 L is very frequently connected to this issue. Several solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than 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 circumstance you would have to remove the cover that will allow 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 relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Fiat 500 L closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat 500 L : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat 500 L 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 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 problematic case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
