If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will happen, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Peugeot 308 is fortunately more a indicator of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot 308 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 308 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Peugeot 308 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a car 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 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 circumstance, open the trunk of your Peugeot 308, examine the state 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 308 that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Peugeot 308.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot 308 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot 308 is very frequently relating to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you subject 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 sufficient to solve 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 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. Don’t forget to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Peugeot 308 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot 308 : 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 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 308 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 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
