If you find out a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will results, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Ds Ds 3 is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ds Ds 3 can come from accumulated 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 Ds Ds 3 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Ds Ds 3 induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 problem 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 Ds Ds 3, 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 impact. 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 Ds Ds 3 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Ds Ds 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Ds Ds 3 : 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 alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Ds Ds 3 is very often linked to this problem. Several solutions are available to you depending on 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 mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to solve the trouble. 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 take off the cover that allows 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. Don’t forget to check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Ds Ds 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ds Ds 3 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ds Ds 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to check 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.
