If you notice a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will result, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Jeep Renegade is thankfully more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Jeep Renegade 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 Jeep Renegade : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Jeep Renegade caused 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Jeep Renegade, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Jeep Renegade that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Jeep Renegade.
Noise in the trunk of my Jeep Renegade : 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 probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Jeep Renegade is very often linked to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to solve 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 circumstance 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, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. You should check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Jeep Renegade closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Jeep Renegade : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Jeep Renegade 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.
