If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned 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 happens in the trunk of your Hyundai Santa Fe is luckily more a indication of a small correction or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Hyundai Santa Fe 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 Hyundai Santa Fe : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Hyundai Santa Fe induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Hyundai Santa Fe, 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 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 Hyundai Santa Fe that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Hyundai Santa Fe.
Noise in the trunk of my Hyundai Santa Fe : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Hyundai Santa Fe is very frequently linked to this issue. Some solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to resolve the trouble. 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 take out 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Hyundai Santa Fe closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Hyundai Santa Fe : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Hyundai Santa Fe 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 situation, 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
