If you identify a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Hyundai Kona is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Hyundai Kona can come from built up 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 Hyundai Kona : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Hyundai Kona induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 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 Hyundai Kona, examine 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 improvement. 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 Hyundai Kona that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Hyundai Kona.
Noise in the trunk of my Hyundai Kona : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of 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 Hyundai Kona is very frequently linked to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to eliminate the trouble. 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 take out the cover that enables 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Hyundai Kona closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Hyundai Kona : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the procedure 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Hyundai Kona 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.
