If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Land Rover Range Rover is fortunately more a indicator of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Land Rover Range Rover 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 Land Rover Range Rover : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Land Rover Range Rover triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable 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 causes 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 Range Rover, 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Land Rover Range Rover that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Land Rover Range Rover.
Noise in the trunk of my Land Rover Range Rover : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Land Rover Range Rover is very often linked to this trouble. Different solutions are available 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 system with thick grease is enough to resolve the trouble. 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 permits 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 examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Land Rover Range Rover 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 Range Rover : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 Range Rover 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 case, 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 disturbing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
