If you acknowledge a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will results, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more significant fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Peugeot Boxer 2 is luckily more a indicator of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot Boxer 2 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 Boxer 2 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot Boxer 2 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Peugeot Boxer 2, check 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 improvement. 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 Boxer 2 that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Peugeot Boxer 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot Boxer 2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot Boxer 2 is very often related to this trouble. Different solutions are available to you depending on 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 appropriate to solve the issue. 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Peugeot Boxer 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot Boxer 2 : 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. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot Boxer 2 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 unpleasant case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
