If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Toyota Highlander is luckily more a indicator of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Highlander can come from built up 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 Toyota Highlander : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Toyota Highlander generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem causes 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 Highlander, 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 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 Toyota Highlander that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Toyota Highlander.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Highlander : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Highlander is very frequently relating to this problem. Different solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is sufficient to eliminate the problem. 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 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Toyota Highlander closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Highlander : 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 swap is done, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Highlander 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 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 off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
