If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will occur, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more critical fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Subaru Outback is luckily more a signal of a small correction or repair, 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 Subaru Outback 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 Subaru Outback : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Subaru Outback induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Subaru Outback, examine 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 Subaru Outback that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Subaru Outback.
Noise in the trunk of my Subaru Outback : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Subaru Outback is very frequently related to this problem. Different solutions are available to you according 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 more than enough 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 case you would have to strip 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Subaru Outback closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Subaru Outback : 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. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Subaru Outback linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, 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 situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
