If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will occur, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Volkswagen Fox is thankfully more a signal of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate 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 Fox 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 Fox : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Fox created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 causes 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 Fox, verify 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 difference. 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 Fox that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Fox.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Fox : 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 potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Fox is very frequently connected to this problem. Different solutions are available to you depending on 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 enough to resolve the trouble. 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 case you would have to remove the cover that allows 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. You should check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Volkswagen Fox closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Fox : 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. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the technique 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Fox 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 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.
