If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will occur, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Kia Sportage is thankfully more a indication of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Kia Sportage can come from accumulated dirt, the issue 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 Sportage : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Kia Sportage generated 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Kia Sportage, examine 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Kia Sportage that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Kia Sportage.
Noise in the trunk of my Kia Sportage : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Kia Sportage is very frequently linked to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to fix the issue. 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 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, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Kia Sportage closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Kia Sportage : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Kia Sportage 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 remove 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 take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
