If you notice a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will happen, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more significant fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Land Rover Defender is thankfully more a indication of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Land Rover Defender 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 Land Rover Defender : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Land Rover Defender caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Land Rover Defender, check the condition 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 improvement. 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 Land Rover Defender that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Land Rover Defender.
Noise in the trunk of my Land Rover Defender : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, 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 probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Land Rover Defender is very often connected to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to fix the trouble. 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 will allow 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Land Rover Defender closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Land Rover Defender : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Land Rover Defender linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 problematic situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
