If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Mini Mini is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mini Mini 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 Mini : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mini Mini created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a car 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 verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Mini Mini, 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 Mini Mini that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Mini Mini.
Noise in the trunk of my Mini Mini : 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 likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mini Mini 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 quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to eliminate 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 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. Make sure to verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Mini Mini closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mini Mini : 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. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the technique 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mini Mini linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your situation, 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
