If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will results, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more critical repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Citroen Xsara is luckily more a signal of a small correction or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Citroen Xsara 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 Xsara : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Citroen Xsara induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a car 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Citroen Xsara, 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 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 Xsara that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Citroen Xsara.
Noise in the trunk of my Citroen Xsara : 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 potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Citroen Xsara is very frequently connected to this problem. Several solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to eliminate the issue. 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 case you would have to strip 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, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Citroen Xsara closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Citroen Xsara : 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. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Citroen Xsara 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 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
