If you find out a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will result, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more important fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Renault Zoe is fortunately more a indication of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renault Zoe can come from accumulated 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 Zoe : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renault Zoe created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Renault Zoe, 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Zoe that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Renault Zoe.
Noise in the trunk of my Renault Zoe : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renault Zoe is very often linked to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you subject 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 enough to fix the problem. Secondly, it is also possible 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 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 examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Renault Zoe closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renault Zoe : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Renault Zoe linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, 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 situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
