If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Mitsubishi L200 is thankfully more a indicator of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mitsubishi L200 can come from built up dirt, the issue 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 L200 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi L200 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Mitsubishi L200, examine 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 impact. 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 L200 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 L200.
Noise in the trunk of my Mitsubishi L200 : 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 likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi L200 is very frequently related to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is more than enough 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 strip off the cover that will allow 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Mitsubishi L200 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mitsubishi L200 : 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 replacement is made, to remove the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mitsubishi L200 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
