If you pay attention to 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 occur, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more important restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your CUPRA FORMENTOR is luckily more a sign of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your CUPRA FORMENTOR can come from built up 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 CUPRA FORMENTOR : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your CUPRA FORMENTOR caused 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 top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your CUPRA FORMENTOR, 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 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 CUPRA FORMENTOR that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a CUPRA FORMENTOR.
Noise in the trunk of my CUPRA FORMENTOR : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your CUPRA FORMENTOR is very frequently relating to this issue. Several solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes 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 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 verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your CUPRA FORMENTOR closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk CUPRA FORMENTOR : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your CUPRA FORMENTOR linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define the noise. If this is your case, 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 disturbing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
