If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will occur, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more important repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Peugeot 3008 is fortunately more a indicator of a small correction or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot 3008 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 Peugeot 3008 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot 3008 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a automobile 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 issue 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 Peugeot 3008, 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 difference. 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 3008 that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Peugeot 3008.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot 3008 : 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 potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot 3008 is very frequently relating to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism 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 circumstance you would have to strip off the cover that permits 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 check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Peugeot 3008 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot 3008 : 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 swap is made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 3008 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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.
