If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will results, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more critical restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Renault Maxity is thankfully more a indicator of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Maxity can come from accumulated 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 Maxity : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Maxity generated 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 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 examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Renault Maxity, 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Maxity that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Maxity.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Maxity : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Maxity is very frequently related to this problem. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is 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 remove the cover that enables 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 examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Renault Maxity closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Maxity : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to remove 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Maxity 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 embarrassing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
