If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more critical restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Fiat Punto 2 is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or service, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Fiat Punto 2 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 Punto 2 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Fiat Punto 2 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers 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 Punto 2, check the condition 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Punto 2 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Fiat Punto 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Punto 2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat Punto 2 is very often linked to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to eliminate the problem. 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 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, simply 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Fiat Punto 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Punto 2 : 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. In fact, when a plate change is made, to remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Punto 2 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 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.
