If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more critical fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Peugeot 807 is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot 807 can come from accumulated dirt, the problem 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 807 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot 807 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Peugeot 807, check 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 807 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Peugeot 807.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot 807 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot 807 is very often connected to this problem. Several solutions are available 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 solve the trouble. Secondly, it is also possible 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 remove 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Peugeot 807 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot 807 : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the procedure 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 807 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify the noise. If this is your situation, 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
