If you identify a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will results, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Renault Scenic is fortunately more a signal of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Scenic can come from built up dirt, the trouble 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 Scenic : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Renault Scenic generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a automobile 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 trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Renault Scenic, 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 impact. 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 Scenic that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Scenic.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Scenic : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Scenic is very often linked to this trouble. Several solutions are existing to you subject 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 good enough to eliminate the issue. 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 circumstance you would have to take out the cover that will allow 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Renault Scenic closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Scenic : 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 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 to be able 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Scenic linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 disturbing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
