If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more significant fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Volkswagen T-Cross is thankfully more a indication of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen T-Cross 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 Volkswagen T-Cross : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen T-Cross triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern 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 check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Volkswagen T-Cross, examine the state 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 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 T-Cross that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen T-Cross.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen T-Cross : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, 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 Volkswagen T-Cross is very often relating to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you according to 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 fix 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 circumstance you would have to strip off 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Volkswagen T-Cross closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen T-Cross : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen T-Cross linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 problematic case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
