If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will result, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more significant fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Volkswagen Caddy 3 is luckily more a indication of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Caddy 3 can come from built up dirt, the problem 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 Caddy 3 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Caddy 3 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable 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 problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Caddy 3, verify 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Caddy 3 that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Caddy 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Caddy 3 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience 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 Caddy 3 is very often related to this problem. Different solutions are available to you according 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 mechanism with thick grease is good enough to resolve the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Caddy 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Caddy 3 : 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. 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 released 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Caddy 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
