If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will result, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more important repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Mini Cooper is thankfully more a signal of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mini Cooper can come from built up 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.
Noise in the trunk Mini Cooper : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mini Cooper generated 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 top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up 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 circumstance, open the trunk of your Mini Cooper, check 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 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 Mini Cooper 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 Mini Cooper.
Noise in the trunk of my Mini Cooper : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Mini Cooper is very often related to this problem. Different solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough to solve the issue. 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 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Mini Cooper closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mini Cooper : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take off 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mini Cooper 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 disturbing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
