If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will occur, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Suzuki Sx4 is thankfully more a indication of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Suzuki Sx4 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 Suzuki Sx4 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Suzuki Sx4 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects 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 circumstance, open the trunk of your Suzuki Sx4, 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 impact. 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 Suzuki Sx4 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 Sx4.
Noise in the trunk of my Suzuki Sx4 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Suzuki Sx4 is very frequently linked to this issue. Some solutions are available to you depending on 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 solve the problem. 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Suzuki Sx4 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Suzuki Sx4 : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the strategy 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Suzuki Sx4 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 disturbing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
