If you notice a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more important restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Peugeot 406 is luckily more a indication of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot 406 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 Peugeot 406 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot 406 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile 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 trouble causes 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 406, verify 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 406 that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Peugeot 406.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot 406 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot 406 is very frequently linked to this trouble. Some solutions are available 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 mechanism with thick grease is good enough to resolve the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Peugeot 406 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot 406 : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 406 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
