If you notice a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will results, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more significant restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Renault Espace 3 is thankfully more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Espace 3 can come from built up dirt, the problem 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 Renault Espace 3 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Espace 3 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a vehicle that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Renault Espace 3, verify 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Espace 3 that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Espace 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Espace 3 : 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 likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Espace 3 is very frequently relating to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you depending on 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 good enough to eliminate the trouble. Secondly, it is also possible 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 will allow 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 verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Renault Espace 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Espace 3 : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the technique 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Espace 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 disturbing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
