If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more significant restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Renault Laguna 3 is luckily more a indication of a small correction or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Laguna 3 can come from accumulated 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 Renault Laguna 3 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Laguna 3 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a car 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Renault Laguna 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 difference. 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 3 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Renault Laguna 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Laguna 3 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Laguna 3 is very frequently linked to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is more than 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 strip 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 examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Renault Laguna 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Laguna 3 : 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. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the process 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 Renault Laguna 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
