If you pay attention to a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Renault Grand Scenic 4 is thankfully more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Grand Scenic 4 can come from accumulated 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 Renault Grand Scenic 4 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Renault Grand Scenic 4 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This issue 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 Renault Grand Scenic 4, verify 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 Renault Grand Scenic 4 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Renault Grand Scenic 4.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Grand Scenic 4 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Grand Scenic 4 is very often related to this issue. Several solutions are available to you subject 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 system with thick grease is more than enough to fix 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 permits 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Renault Grand Scenic 4 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Grand Scenic 4 : 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. In fact, when a plate change is done, to take out 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Grand Scenic 4 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
