If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will result, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Renault Modus is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Modus 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 Modus : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Renault Modus generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Renault Modus, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Modus that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Modus.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Modus : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Modus is very often relating to this issue. Some 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 enough to eliminate the trouble. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 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. Make sure to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Renault Modus closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Modus : 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 off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Modus 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 remove 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 off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
