If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more significant repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Renault Clio 4 is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Clio 4 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 Renault Clio 4 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Clio 4 induced 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects 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 Renault Clio 4, 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 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 Renault Clio 4 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Clio 4.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Clio 4 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Clio 4 is very often related 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 enough to resolve the trouble. 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 strip 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Renault Clio 4 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Clio 4 : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 Renault Clio 4 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 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
