If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will results, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more critical repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your seat leon is thankfully more a indicator of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your seat leon 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 seat leon : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your seat leon induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 builds up 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 situation, open the trunk of your seat leon, examine 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 impact. 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 leon that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a seat leon.
Noise in the trunk of my seat leon : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge 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 seat leon is very frequently linked to this problem. Different solutions are existing 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 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 case you would have to take off the cover that will allow 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your seat leon closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk seat leon : 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 made, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out the license plate. Sadly, 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 leon 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 remove 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
