If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will occur, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more significant fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Land Rover Range Rover Evoque is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or fix, 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 Evoque 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 Evoque : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Land Rover Range Rover Evoque created 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 top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, verify the state 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 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 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque.
Noise in the trunk of my Land Rover Range Rover Evoque : 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 potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Land Rover Range Rover Evoque is very often related to this trouble. Different solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to resolve the problem. 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 strip off 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Land Rover Range Rover Evoque closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Land Rover Range Rover Evoque : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your case, 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 unpleasant case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
