If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will happen, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Land Rover Discovery Sport is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Land Rover Discovery Sport can come from accumulated 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 Land Rover Discovery Sport : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Land Rover Discovery Sport caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 collects 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 Land Rover Discovery Sport, examine 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Land Rover Discovery Sport that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Land Rover Discovery Sport.
Noise in the trunk of my Land Rover Discovery Sport : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Land Rover Discovery Sport is very often relating to this trouble. Several solutions are existing to you according 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 system with thick grease is appropriate to eliminate the trouble. 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 case you would have to take out the cover that enables 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 examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Land Rover Discovery Sport closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Land Rover Discovery Sport : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 Land Rover Discovery Sport linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
