If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more critical restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Renault Megane 4 is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help 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 Megane 4 can come from built up 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 Megane 4 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Renault Megane 4 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 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 Megane 4, 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 difference. 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 Renault Megane 4 that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Megane 4.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Megane 4 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Megane 4 is very often related to this problem. Several solutions are existing 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 mechanism with thick grease is good enough to resolve the problem. 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 case you would have to take off the cover that enables 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 examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Renault Megane 4 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Megane 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 unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. In fact, when a plate change is done, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Megane 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 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
