If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will occur, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Peugeot e-2008 is fortunately more a signal of a small adjustment or service, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot e-2008 can come from accumulated 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 Peugeot e-2008 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot e-2008 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a automobile that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Peugeot e-2008, check the condition of the gasket that runs 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 Peugeot e-2008 that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Peugeot e-2008.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot e-2008 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot e-2008 is very frequently relating to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to eliminate the issue. 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 take 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Peugeot e-2008 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot e-2008 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release the license plate. Sadly, 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot e-2008 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 disturbing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
