If you notice a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Citroen C8 is fortunately more a signal of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Citroen C8 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 C8 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Citroen C8 induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile 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 problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Citroen C8, 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 impact. 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 C8 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Citroen C8.
Noise in the trunk of my Citroen C8 : 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 likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Citroen C8 is very often related to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you according 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 good enough to fix the trouble. 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 case you would have to take off 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Citroen C8 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Citroen C8 : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Citroen C8 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, 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 situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
