If you identify a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more critical fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Honda Odyssey is thankfully more a signal of a small correction or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Honda Odyssey 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 Honda Odyssey : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Honda Odyssey caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible 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 problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Honda Odyssey, check 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 improvement. 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 Honda Odyssey that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Honda Odyssey.
Noise in the trunk of my Honda Odyssey : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Honda Odyssey is very frequently connected to this problem. Different solutions are available to you according to 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 enough to resolve 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 remove 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Honda Odyssey closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Honda Odyssey : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Honda Odyssey linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 unpleasant case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
