If you notice a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will results, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more significant restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Suzuki Alto is fortunately more a indicator of a small correction or fix, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Suzuki Alto can come from built up dirt, the trouble 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 Suzuki Alto : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Suzuki Alto 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 trouble 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 Suzuki Alto, examine the state 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 improvement. 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 Suzuki Alto that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Suzuki Alto.
Noise in the trunk of my Suzuki Alto : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Suzuki Alto is very often linked to this trouble. Several 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 enough to fix the issue. 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 remove the cover that permits 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Suzuki Alto closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Suzuki Alto : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Suzuki Alto linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
