If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will happen, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more critical restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Volvo S60 is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volvo S60 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 Volvo S60 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volvo S60 triggered 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue causes 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 Volvo S60, examine the condition 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 impact. 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 Volvo S60 that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Volvo S60.
Noise in the trunk of my Volvo S60 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volvo S60 is very frequently relating to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you depending on 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 solve the issue. 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Volvo S60 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volvo S60 : 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 replacement is done, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release the license plate. Sadly, 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 Volvo S60 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine 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 out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
