If you notice a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will happen, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more critical restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Mazda 5 is fortunately more a indication of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mazda 5 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 Mazda 5 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mazda 5 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Mazda 5, 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 Mazda 5 that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Mazda 5.
Noise in the trunk of my Mazda 5 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Mazda 5 is very frequently connected to this trouble. Different solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is enough to fix 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 off 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Mazda 5 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mazda 5 : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 Mazda 5 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 unpleasant case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
