If you identify a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will results, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Seat Ateca is luckily more a signal of a small correction or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Seat Ateca can come from built up 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 Seat Ateca : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Seat Ateca created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a automobile 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Seat Ateca, verify 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Seat Ateca that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Seat Ateca.
Noise in the trunk of my Seat Ateca : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Seat Ateca is very frequently related to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you according to 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 enough to eliminate the issue. 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Seat Ateca closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Seat Ateca : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the strategy 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Seat Ateca linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 embarrassing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
