If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will results, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more critical fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Opel Agila is thankfully more a indicator of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Agila 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 Opel Agila : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Opel Agila caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 Agila, examine 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Agila that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Opel Agila.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Agila : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Agila is very often related to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you depending on 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 good enough to fix the problem. Secondly, it is also possible 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, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Opel Agila closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Agila : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, 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. 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 Opel Agila 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 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
