If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will occur, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Jaguar XE is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Jaguar XE can come from accumulated dirt, the issue 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 Jaguar XE : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Jaguar XE created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Jaguar XE, verify 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Jaguar XE that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Jaguar XE.
Noise in the trunk of my Jaguar XE : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Jaguar XE is very often connected to this issue. Some solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to resolve the trouble. 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 case 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Jaguar XE closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Jaguar XE : 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 change is done, to remove the old one the strategy 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Jaguar XE linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your case, 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 disturbing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
