If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will occur, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more significant fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Hyundai Tucson is thankfully more a indicator of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Hyundai Tucson can come from accumulated 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 Tucson : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Hyundai Tucson created 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue 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 Tucson, verify 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 Tucson that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Hyundai Tucson.
Noise in the trunk of my Hyundai Tucson : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Hyundai Tucson is very often related to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you subject 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 appropriate to fix 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Hyundai Tucson closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Hyundai Tucson : 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. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 Hyundai Tucson 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 disturbing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
