If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will result, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more significant fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your PORSCHE 718 is fortunately more a sign of a small correction or fix, rather than a complex one. To help 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 PORSCHE 718 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 PORSCHE 718 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your PORSCHE 718 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your PORSCHE 718, 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 difference. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your PORSCHE 718 that is related 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 PORSCHE 718.
Noise in the trunk of my PORSCHE 718 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your PORSCHE 718 is very frequently related to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you subject to 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 sufficient to solve the issue. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your PORSCHE 718 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk PORSCHE 718 : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the procedure 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your PORSCHE 718 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine 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.
