If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more important fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Maserati Levante is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided 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 Maserati Levante 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 Maserati Levante : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Maserati Levante caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable 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 trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Maserati Levante, examine the condition of the gasket that goes 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Maserati Levante that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Maserati Levante.
Noise in the trunk of my Maserati Levante : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Maserati Levante is very frequently linked to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you depending on 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 appropriate to solve the problem. 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 case you would have to remove the cover that allows 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 verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Maserati Levante closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Maserati Levante : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take out the old one the procedure 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Maserati Levante linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 disturbing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
