If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will result, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Renault Espace is luckily more a indicator of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Espace 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 Espace : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Espace caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Renault Espace, verify 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 improvement. 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 Renault Espace that is linked 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 Espace.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Espace : 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 probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Espace is very often linked to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you according to 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 enough 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 case you would have to remove the cover that enables access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. You should verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Renault Espace closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Espace : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 Renault Espace linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your case, 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 problematic case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
