If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more significant fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Toyota Prius 2 is thankfully more a indicator of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Toyota Prius 2 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 Prius 2 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Toyota Prius 2 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable that on a car 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 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 scenario, open the trunk of your Toyota Prius 2, verify 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Prius 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 Prius 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Prius 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 possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Prius 2 is very frequently related to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you depending on 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 solve the issue. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 out 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. Make sure to examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Toyota Prius 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Prius 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Prius 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 case, 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 case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
