Rattle in Trunk

[MoldySpore]

Ok. It isn't the jack or the spare tire or anything. EVERY bump or little thing in the road makes a rattling thing in the trunk start to happen. With the seat down, you can hear and FEEL something knocking in the front, right side of the trunk (if you are standing facing the car from the back). Any idea what this could be?

[Durrby]

Rear sway bar bushings? Mine were shot so I had to get new ones. $16 a piece from Toyota, then took it to a shop and paid $40 for the install for 30 mins of work.

[skewe]

could be the strut mount.

[Knailgun]

dead hooker...?...wait that is my trunk.... sway bar bushings.....my 2 cents

[Mike Gerber]

I had the same problem on my wife's 98. I too went through everything in the trunk as that's where it seemed to be coming from. It wasn't inside the trunk. It was the sway bar bushings, as a few others have suggested. A quick test is to raise the rear of the car and support it securely on jackstands. Now crawl under there and grab the sway bar and try to move it side to side. If you can move it, then the bushings are shot. They are relatively cheap and not too hard to replace.

Mike

[MoldySpore]

hmm...sounds like a job for a shop. i dont think i want to deal with that. lol. thx for the replies all

[cam2Xrunner]

Could also be the tension rods that hold the trunk up. Also check the sway bar end links(as well as the bushings)

[dna59]

well i have rattlings in my trunk area and for me it's my strut mounts

[95camguy]

mine was the sway bar bushings. i had the replaced at about 125K miles. much better now.

funny, i always thought it was something i had in my trunk till one day i took everything out(even the spare tire) and went for a drive.

[MoldySpore]

well i just remembered that i did my sway bar busings along with back shocks less than a year ago...no way they could have gone bad that quick...