If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Opel Astra is fortunately more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Astra can come from built up dirt, the problem 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 Astra : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Opel Astra triggered 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Opel Astra, verify 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Astra that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Opel Astra.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Astra : 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 likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Astra is very often linked to this problem. Some solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to solve the trouble. 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 circumstance 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Opel Astra closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Astra : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Astra linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
