If you pay attention to a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will happen, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Citroen Berlingo is thankfully more a indication of a small correction or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Citroen Berlingo can come from built up 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 Citroen Berlingo : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Citroen Berlingo caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible 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 triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Citroen Berlingo, verify 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 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 Citroen Berlingo that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Citroen Berlingo.
Noise in the trunk of my Citroen Berlingo : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Citroen Berlingo is very frequently linked to this issue. Different solutions are available 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 solve 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 permits 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 regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Citroen Berlingo closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Citroen Berlingo : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to take out 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Citroen Berlingo linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your situation, 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
