If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will results, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more critical repair. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Citroen C3 Aircross is fortunately more a indicator of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Citroen C3 Aircross 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 Citroen C3 Aircross : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Citroen C3 Aircross caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a automobile 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Citroen C3 Aircross, verify the condition 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 improvement. 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 C3 Aircross that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Citroen C3 Aircross.
Noise in the trunk of my Citroen C3 Aircross : 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 probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Citroen C3 Aircross is very often connected to this problem. Several 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 system with thick grease is more than enough to resolve the trouble. 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 circumstance you would have to take out 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. You should check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Citroen C3 Aircross closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Citroen C3 Aircross : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 Citroen C3 Aircross linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 disturbing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
