If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more significant fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Jeep Liberty is luckily more a indicator of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Jeep Liberty 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 Jeep Liberty : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Jeep Liberty triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Jeep Liberty, verify the state 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 difference. 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 Jeep Liberty that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Jeep Liberty.
Noise in the trunk of my Jeep Liberty : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Jeep Liberty is very frequently connected to this trouble. Some solutions are existing 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 system with thick grease is more than enough to resolve the problem. 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 off 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Jeep Liberty closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Jeep Liberty : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Jeep Liberty linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify the noise. If this is your situation, 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 problematic situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
