If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will occur, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volkswagen Passat 8 is fortunately more a indicator of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat 8 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 Passat 8 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat 8 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car 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 trouble triggers 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 Volkswagen Passat 8, examine 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 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 Volkswagen Passat 8 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Passat 8.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Passat 8 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat 8 is very often related to this trouble. 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 mechanism with thick grease is good enough to eliminate the issue. 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 out the cover that permits 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Passat 8 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Passat 8 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 Volkswagen Passat 8 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your case, 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 case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
