If you notice a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will happen, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Isuzu D-Max is luckily more a sign of a small correction or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Isuzu D-Max can come from accumulated 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 Isuzu D-Max : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Isuzu D-Max induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Isuzu D-Max, 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Isuzu D-Max that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Isuzu D-Max.
Noise in the trunk of my Isuzu D-Max : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Isuzu D-Max is very often relating to this problem. Different solutions are existing 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 more than enough to solve the issue. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 will allow 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Isuzu D-Max closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Isuzu D-Max : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to remove the old one the technique 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 Isuzu D-Max linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 problematic situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
