If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will results, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Lexus GS is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Lexus GS can come from accumulated dirt, the problem can also come from a loose lock and finally, it can even come from a simple rivet that sits inside your bumper.trunk-noise-lexus-gs

Noise in the trunk Lexus GS : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing

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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Lexus GS induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Lexus GS, 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 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 Lexus GS that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Lexus GS.

Noise in the trunk of my Lexus GS : Loose lock, clicking noise

Second probability, 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 Lexus GS is very often connected to this problem. Several 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 fix the issue. 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 remove 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. Don’t forget to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Lexus GS closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.

Noise in my trunk Lexus GS : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Lexus GS 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.