If you acknowledge a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will happen, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo is thankfully more a signal of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo can come from built up 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 Volkswagen Polo : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble 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 Volkswagen Polo, 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 Volkswagen Polo that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Polo.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Polo : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo is very often linked to this trouble. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is enough to eliminate the trouble. 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 out 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Polo : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
