If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Jeep Compass is thankfully more a indication of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Jeep Compass can come from accumulated 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 Jeep Compass : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Jeep Compass triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Jeep Compass, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Jeep Compass that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Jeep Compass.
Noise in the trunk of my Jeep Compass : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, 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 probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Jeep Compass is very frequently linked to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you depending on 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 system with thick grease is sufficient to solve the trouble. 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 strip off the cover that enables 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Jeep Compass closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Jeep Compass : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the process 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Jeep Compass linked to a rivet, you will need to check 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 off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
