If you notice a noise on your car, 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 symptom of a more significant fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Peugeot 309 is fortunately more a indicator of a small correction or fix, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot 309 can come from built up dirt, the issue 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 309 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Peugeot 309 induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a car 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 issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Peugeot 309, examine 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 improvement. 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 309 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Peugeot 309.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot 309 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot 309 is very frequently connected to this issue. Some solutions are available 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 system with thick grease is more than enough to fix the issue. 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 circumstance you would have to take off the cover that allows 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Peugeot 309 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot 309 : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 309 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 case, you will have to take out 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 take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
