If you pay attention to a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will results, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Mitsubishi Asx is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Asx can come from accumulated 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 Mitsubishi Asx : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Asx triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 trouble causes 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 Mitsubishi Asx, 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 Mitsubishi Asx that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Mitsubishi Asx.
Noise in the trunk of my Mitsubishi Asx : 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 probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Asx is very often related to this trouble. Several 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 appropriate to eliminate the problem. 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 case 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, just 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Mitsubishi Asx closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mitsubishi Asx : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi Asx linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 problematic case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
