If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more significant fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Fiat Panda 3 is thankfully more a indication of a small manipulation or service, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce 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 Panda 3 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 Fiat Panda 3 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Fiat Panda 3 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Fiat Panda 3, 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 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 Fiat Panda 3 that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Fiat Panda 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Panda 3 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience 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 Fiat Panda 3 is very frequently linked to this issue. Some 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 mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to solve the issue. 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, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Fiat Panda 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Panda 3 : 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 take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Fiat Panda 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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.
