If you acknowledge a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will happen, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more significant restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Citroen C5 Aircross is thankfully more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Citroen C5 Aircross can come from built up dirt, the trouble 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 Citroen C5 Aircross : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Citroen C5 Aircross generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Citroen C5 Aircross, verify the state 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 difference. 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 Citroen C5 Aircross that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Citroen C5 Aircross.
Noise in the trunk of my Citroen C5 Aircross : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Citroen C5 Aircross is very frequently linked to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you according to 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 mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to resolve the trouble. 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 strip off the cover that permits 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 check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Citroen C5 Aircross closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Citroen C5 Aircross : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Citroen C5 Aircross linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your situation, you will have to remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more embarrassing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
