If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will occur, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more significant repair. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volkswagen Coccinelle is luckily more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose 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 Coccinelle can come from accumulated 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 Coccinelle : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Coccinelle induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This problem 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 Coccinelle, check 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 improvement. 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 Coccinelle 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 Coccinelle.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Coccinelle : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Coccinelle is very frequently relating to this problem. Some solutions are existing 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 mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to solve 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 remove the cover that permits 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Volkswagen Coccinelle closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Coccinelle : 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 done, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Coccinelle linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
