If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will result, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more significant restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Kia E Niro is luckily more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Kia E Niro can come from built up 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 Kia E Niro : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Kia E Niro caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile 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 problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Kia E Niro, verify 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 impact. 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 Kia E Niro 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 Kia E Niro.
Noise in the trunk of my Kia E Niro : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Kia E Niro is very often linked to this problem. Some 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 system with thick grease is good enough to fix the trouble. 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 circumstance you would have to remove the cover that allows 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Kia E Niro closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Kia E Niro : 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. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the technique 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Kia E Niro 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 remove 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.
