If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will results, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more significant repair. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Peugeot Traveller is luckily more a indication of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a difficult one. To support 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 Peugeot Traveller 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 Peugeot Traveller : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot Traveller caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a vehicle 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 examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Peugeot Traveller, examine the condition 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 impact. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot Traveller that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Peugeot Traveller.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot Traveller : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot Traveller is very often linked to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to solve the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 remove the cover that will allow 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 examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Peugeot Traveller closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot Traveller : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot Traveller linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
