If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will results, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more critical fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Peugeot Partner is thankfully more a sign of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Peugeot Partner 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 Partner : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Peugeot Partner created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Peugeot Partner, check the state 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Peugeot Partner that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Peugeot Partner.
Noise in the trunk of my Peugeot Partner : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Peugeot Partner is very often linked to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to solve the trouble. 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 take out 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 verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Peugeot Partner closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Peugeot Partner : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap 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. 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 Partner 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 take out 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.
