If you notice a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Renault Scenic 4 is fortunately more a sign of a small correction or repair, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Scenic 4 can come from built up 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 Scenic 4 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Renault Scenic 4 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Renault Scenic 4, check 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 improvement. 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 Scenic 4 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Renault Scenic 4.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault 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 possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Scenic 4 is very often linked to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is sufficient to fix 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 will allow 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Renault Scenic 4 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Scenic 4 : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, 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. 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Scenic 4 linked to a rivet, you will need to check 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 problematic case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
