If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more significant fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Kia Picanto is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen 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 Kia Picanto 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 Kia Picanto : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Kia Picanto caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a automobile 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble 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 Kia Picanto, check the condition 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 impact. 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 Kia Picanto that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Kia Picanto.
Noise in the trunk of my Kia Picanto : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Kia Picanto is very often related 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 fix the problem. 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 strip off 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Kia Picanto closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Kia Picanto : 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 remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Kia Picanto 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 take out the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more disturbing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
