If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will occur, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more important repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Toyota Auris 2 is fortunately more a indication of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Auris 2 can come from accumulated 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 Toyota Auris 2 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Toyota Auris 2 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 issue 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 Toyota Auris 2, check the condition 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 Toyota Auris 2 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 Toyota Auris 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Auris 2 : 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 Toyota Auris 2 is very often related to this issue. Different solutions are available 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 mechanism with thick grease is good 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 strip off the cover that enables 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 checking out the trunk of your Toyota Auris 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Auris 2 : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take out the old one the procedure 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Auris 2 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
