If you identify a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more critical repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Opel Adam is fortunately more a indication of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Adam can come from accumulated 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 Opel Adam : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Opel Adam induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern 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 check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Opel Adam, check the state 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 impact. 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 Opel Adam that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Opel Adam.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Adam : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Adam is very often connected to this issue. Different solutions are existing 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 mechanism with thick grease is appropriate 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 circumstance you would have to remove the cover that enables 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 regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Opel Adam closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Adam : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Adam 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 remove 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 out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
