If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will results, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Toyota Yaris 3 is thankfully more a indicator of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen 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 Yaris 3 can come from accumulated 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 Yaris 3 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Toyota Yaris 3 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Toyota Yaris 3, 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 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 Yaris 3 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Toyota Yaris 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Toyota Yaris 3 : 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 probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Toyota Yaris 3 is very frequently connected to this problem. Some solutions are available to you according 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 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 take out 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Toyota Yaris 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Toyota Yaris 3 : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Toyota Yaris 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 problematic case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
