If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will results, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more critical repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Land Rover LR4 is fortunately more a indication of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose 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 LR4 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 LR4 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Land Rover LR4 induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Land Rover LR4, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Land Rover LR4 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Land Rover LR4.
Noise in the trunk of my Land Rover LR4 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Land Rover LR4 is very often related to this issue. Some solutions are available to you according 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 more than enough to solve 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 circumstance you would have to take out the cover that permits 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Land Rover LR4 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Land Rover LR4 : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take off the old one the strategy 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Land Rover LR4 linked to a rivet, you will need to check 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
