If you detect 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 happen, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Renault Twingo 3 is fortunately more a sign of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Twingo 3 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 3 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Renault Twingo 3 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Renault Twingo 3, verify 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 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 Twingo 3 that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Twingo 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Twingo 3 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Twingo 3 is very frequently relating to this problem. Several solutions are existing 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 mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to resolve the problem. 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 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 check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Renault Twingo 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Twingo 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 Twingo 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
