If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will result, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more significant fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Toyota Matrix is fortunately more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Matrix 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 Matrix : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Toyota Matrix caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible 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 problem 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 Matrix, 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Matrix that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Toyota Matrix.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Matrix : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Matrix is very frequently related to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you subject to 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 more than enough to fix the trouble. 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 will allow 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 regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Toyota Matrix closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Matrix : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take off 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Matrix 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 remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more embarrassing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
