If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will happen, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Renault Laguna 2 is thankfully more a signal of a small correction or repair, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided 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 Laguna 2 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 Laguna 2 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Laguna 2 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, 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 collects 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 scenario, open the trunk of your Renault Laguna 2, examine 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 impact. 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 Laguna 2 that is connected 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 Renault Laguna 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Laguna 2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Laguna 2 is very often connected to this problem. 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 good enough to resolve the problem. 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 circumstance you would have to take off the cover that allows 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. Remember to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Renault Laguna 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Laguna 2 : 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. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Laguna 2 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 situation, 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 situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
