If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Jaguar XF is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided 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 Jaguar XF 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 Jaguar XF : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
>
We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Jaguar XF induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a automobile that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Jaguar XF, check 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Jaguar XF 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 Jaguar XF.
Noise in the trunk of my Jaguar XF : 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 potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Jaguar XF is very often linked to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to fix the trouble. Secondly, it is also plausible that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which circumstance you would have to strip off the cover that enables 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Jaguar XF closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Jaguar XF : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take out the old one the strategy 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Jaguar XF linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your case, 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 unpleasant case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
