If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will results, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Citroen C3 Picasso is luckily more a indication of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Citroen C3 Picasso 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 Citroen C3 Picasso : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Citroen C3 Picasso created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates 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 circumstance, open the trunk of your Citroen C3 Picasso, check the state 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Citroen C3 Picasso that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Citroen C3 Picasso.
Noise in the trunk of my Citroen C3 Picasso : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Citroen C3 Picasso is very frequently connected to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you subject 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 system with thick grease is sufficient 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 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Citroen C3 Picasso closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Citroen C3 Picasso : 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. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Citroen C3 Picasso 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 remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more unpleasant case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
