If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will occur, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Citroen Xantia is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Citroen Xantia 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 Xantia : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Citroen Xantia caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 trouble 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 Xantia, examine 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Citroen Xantia that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Citroen Xantia.
Noise in the trunk of my Citroen Xantia : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Citroen Xantia is very often relating to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough to resolve the problem. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 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 relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Citroen Xantia closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Citroen Xantia : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Xantia linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
