If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will results, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Citroen C4 Picasso is luckily more a indicator of a small correction or service, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Citroen C4 Picasso can come from accumulated 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 Citroen C4 Picasso : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Citroen C4 Picasso created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Citroen C4 Picasso, examine 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Citroen C4 Picasso that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Citroen C4 Picasso.
Noise in the trunk of my Citroen C4 Picasso : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Citroen C4 Picasso is very often related to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough to fix the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 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. Don’t forget to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Citroen C4 Picasso closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Citroen C4 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released the license plate. Sadly, 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 Citroen C4 Picasso linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
