If you identify a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will occur, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Peugeot 5008 is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot 5008 can come from built up 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 5008 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot 5008 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 issue 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 5008, check 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 difference. 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 Peugeot 5008 that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Peugeot 5008.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot 5008 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot 5008 is very frequently connected to this issue. Some solutions are available to you according 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 sufficient to fix 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 allows 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Peugeot 5008 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot 5008 : 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 change is done, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot 5008 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 remove 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.
