If you acknowledge a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more significant repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your GMC Savana is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your GMC Savana 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 GMC Savana : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your GMC Savana caused 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your GMC Savana, 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 GMC Savana that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a GMC Savana.
Noise in the trunk of my GMC Savana : 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 potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your GMC Savana is very frequently connected to this issue. Some solutions are available to you subject 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 enough to solve the problem. 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 permits 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 verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your GMC Savana closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk GMC Savana : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take out the old one the process 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your GMC Savana linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
