If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will result, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Renualt Express is luckily more a indicator of a small correction or repair, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Renualt Express can come from accumulated 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 Renualt Express : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Renualt Express created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible 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 verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Renualt Express, check the state of the gasket that goes 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Renualt Express that is related 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 Renualt Express.
Noise in the trunk of my Renualt Express : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Renualt Express is very often related to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you subject to 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 good 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 remove the cover that will allow 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Renualt Express closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Renualt Express : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 Renualt Express linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 problematic situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
