If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will happen, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more significant restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Renault Trafic is thankfully more a indicator of a small correction or repair, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Trafic can come from accumulated dirt, the issue 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 Trafic : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Trafic induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Renault Trafic, 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 Trafic that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Trafic.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Trafic : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Trafic is very often relating to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to solve 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 remove the cover that will allow 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 verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Renault Trafic closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Trafic : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to remove the old one the strategy 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Trafic linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 problematic case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
