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Originally Posted by Sigh-on-Rice

Rear deck making popping (or ticking/tapping) sound.
When rear seats are down, it sounds like a small stone is dropping on top of the trunk.
When rear seats are up, the sound gets dull.
It happens at any speed even at 5 mph in a parking lot.

There are a number of people experiencing this noise in Japan and some of them were able to get it fixed.
The fix is to adjust the spacing in the part circled in red below:


I want to have this known to Toyota/Scion in U.S. also, so that I can get mine fixed too.

YES! How could I have forgotten about this one??