If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will results, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Renault Twizy is luckily more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a difficult 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 issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Twizy 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 Twizy : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Renault Twizy 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue 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 Twizy, examine 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 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 Twizy that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Renault Twizy.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Twizy : 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. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Twizy is very frequently connected to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to resolve 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 circumstance you would have to take off the cover that enables 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Renault Twizy closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Twizy : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky 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 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Twizy 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 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 disturbing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
