If you pay attention to a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will results, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more significant fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Kia Picanto 3 is thankfully more a indicator of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Kia Picanto 3 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 3 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Kia Picanto 3 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a vehicle 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers 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 Kia Picanto 3, examine 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 improvement. 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 Picanto 3 that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Kia Picanto 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Kia Picanto 3 : 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 likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Kia Picanto 3 is very frequently related to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you subject 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 good enough to solve the issue. 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 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Kia Picanto 3 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 3 : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released 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 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
