If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will happen, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Volkswagen Touran 2 is fortunately more a indicator of a small correction or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce 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 Touran 2 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 Touran 2 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Touran 2 induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 collects 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 situation, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Touran 2, 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Touran 2 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Touran 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Touran 2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Touran 2 is very frequently connected to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is good enough to eliminate the problem. 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 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, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Remember to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Volkswagen Touran 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Touran 2 : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Touran 2 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your situation, 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
