If you acknowledge a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Fiat Stilo is luckily more a indication of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Fiat Stilo can come from accumulated dirt, the trouble 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 Stilo : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Fiat Stilo generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Fiat Stilo, examine the condition 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Stilo that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Fiat Stilo.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Stilo : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat Stilo is very often relating to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to solve the issue. 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 take out 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Fiat Stilo closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Stilo : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the strategy 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Stilo linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your case, 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 disturbing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
