If you identify a noise on your vehicle, 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 restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 is fortunately more a signal of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 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 Land Cruiser Serie 90 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 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 Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90, verify the condition 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 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 Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 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 Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 is very frequently linked to this issue. Several 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 system with thick grease is enough to resolve 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 case 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, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Make sure to examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take out 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Land Cruiser Serie 90 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 remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more problematic case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
