If you notice a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will occur, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more critical repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Peugeot 107 is thankfully more a sign of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot 107 can come from built up 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 Peugeot 107 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot 107 caused 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes 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 Peugeot 107, examine the condition 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 Peugeot 107 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Peugeot 107.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot 107 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot 107 is very frequently linked to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you subject to 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 good enough to solve the problem. 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 circumstance 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. Remember to verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Peugeot 107 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot 107 : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 107 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 problematic case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
