If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more critical fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Opel Corsa is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Opel Corsa can come from accumulated 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 Corsa : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Opel Corsa caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable 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 problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Opel Corsa, verify the condition 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 Corsa that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Opel Corsa.
Noise in the trunk of my Opel Corsa : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Opel Corsa is very frequently related to this problem. Some 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 more than enough to resolve the problem. 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 case you would have to take off 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 check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Opel Corsa closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Opel Corsa : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Opel Corsa linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
