If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will results, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your smart fortwo is thankfully more a signal of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your smart fortwo 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 smart fortwo : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your smart fortwo triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your smart fortwo, verify 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 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 smart fortwo that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a smart fortwo.
Noise in the trunk of my smart fortwo : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your smart fortwo is very often 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 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 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your smart fortwo closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk smart fortwo : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your smart fortwo 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 case, 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 case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
