If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Renault Twingo 2 is luckily more a signal of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Twingo 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 Twingo 2 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Twingo 2 created 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 problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Renault Twingo 2, 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 difference. 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 Twingo 2 that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Renault Twingo 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Twingo 2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Twingo 2 is very frequently linked to this problem. Different solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to resolve the issue. 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 circumstance you would have to strip 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Renault Twingo 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Twingo 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 replacement is done, to remove the old one the technique 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Twingo 2 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 situation, 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
