If you notice a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing significant will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Seat Tarraco is luckily more a sign of a small correction or repair, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Seat Tarraco can come from built up 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 Tarraco : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Seat Tarraco generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern 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 verify if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Seat Tarraco, verify the condition 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 difference. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Seat Tarraco that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Seat Tarraco.
Noise in the trunk of my Seat Tarraco : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Seat Tarraco is very frequently linked to this problem. Some solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to solve the trouble. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Seat Tarraco closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Seat Tarraco : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 Tarraco linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 problematic situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
