If you find out a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will results, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more critical restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Fiat Panda is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Fiat Panda can come from built up 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 Fiat Panda : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Fiat Panda created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Fiat Panda, check 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Panda that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Fiat Panda.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Panda : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat Panda is very often connected to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you depending on 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 more than enough to eliminate 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 take off the cover that permits 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Fiat Panda closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Panda : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 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 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
