If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Peugeot e-208 is fortunately more a indication of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot e-208 can come from built up 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 e-208 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Peugeot e-208 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 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 e-208, examine 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 impact. 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 e-208 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Peugeot e-208.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot e-208 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot e-208 is very frequently 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 system with thick grease is more than enough to solve 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 case you would have to take out 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Peugeot e-208 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot e-208 : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to remove the old one the strategy 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot e-208 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 unpleasant case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
