If you notice a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Peugeot 307 Cc is fortunately more a signal of a small correction or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot 307 Cc can come from built up 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 Peugeot 307 Cc : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot 307 Cc triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Peugeot 307 Cc, examine the condition 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 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 307 Cc that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Peugeot 307 Cc.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot 307 Cc : 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. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot 307 Cc is very frequently relating to this problem. Several solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to resolve 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 circumstance you would have to take off 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Peugeot 307 Cc closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot 307 Cc : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 Peugeot 307 Cc 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 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
