If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will occur, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more significant fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Opel Antara is fortunately more a signal of a small manipulation 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 trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Antara can come from built up 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 Opel Antara : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Opel Antara triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible 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 trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Opel Antara, examine 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 difference. 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 Antara that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Opel Antara.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Antara : 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 potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Antara is very frequently relating to this trouble. Different solutions are available to you according to 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 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 strip off 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. Don’t forget to check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Opel Antara closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Antara : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the procedure 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Antara linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 unpleasant case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
