Weird trunk lid problem

[Devil-V]

This has been bugging me since I bought my car, and it's become a bit of an eye sore. One side of the trunk lid won't close flush (other side being fine). When you fully open the trunk, you can roughly see that the offending side sits higher.

Does anyone know how to adjust it?

 

[Russianred]

Looks like the trunk is popped up at the hinge..

You will need to put a piece of wood or something under the area where it's mounted to the trunk on that side, and press down. The goal is to press the trunk hinge closer to its closing point. Hard to explain, and perhaps there are multiple ways to do this, but that's the principle. There is no adjustment. This symptom usually happens if the trunk is overloaded and something is preventing from closing it all the way, and it pops up like that near the hinge, from the items inside pushing up on it after closure.

 

[SykVSyx]

That gap would annoy me too.

You MAY want to consider getting the special tool for the trunk springs and see if you can readjust that way if you aren't comfortable with the above suggestion.

 

[Devil-V]

Does the closing angle have anything to do with the 2 iron bars that cross over near the internal 3rd brake light? One of them sits slightly lower than the other.

The trunk lid fell on my back earlier trying to have a good nose around (ow!), so I might just take it to the Honda garage before I end up using my car as a hospital carrier...

 

[ryan s]

no, those bars are merely for easing the opening and closing and keeping the trunk open (aka torsion bars).

i can't remember what those hinges look like inside...i spent a good deal of time in the trunk looking at the rear deck. as i recall, the supports were simply bolted to the car...no "slot adjustments" or anything.

i should be working in my trunk again tomorrow or thursday so i can take another look...

 

[Devil-V]

@Ryan S
Judging from your signature pic, you have a sedan and mine is a coupe. Will the trunk assembly be the same, or are there differences?

 

[CG6Lemon]

might be bended from previous owner

 

[chrismister2k1]

Check the bolt that hold the trunk onto the hinge see if there longer than the other side that could be the problem

 

[Devil-V]

I'll post pictures of the trunk hinges tomorrow, so you can see the differences, and possibly make it easier to suggest directly what to try.

 

[ryan s]

@Ryan S
Judging from your signature pic, you have a sedan and mine is a coupe. Will the trunk assembly be the same, or are there differences?

honda is king of interchangeability...leave it to them to pick the same parts out a bin for multiple cars

well its raining again today so i cant go and mess around with the trunk have you figured out any possibilities?