If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will result, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your skoda fabia is fortunately more a indication of a small correction or fix, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your skoda fabia 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 skoda fabia : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your skoda fabia triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a car 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 problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your skoda fabia, examine the condition 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 improvement. 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 skoda fabia that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a skoda fabia.
Noise in the trunk of my skoda fabia : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge 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 skoda fabia is very often connected 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 resolve the trouble. 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 remove 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. You should check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your skoda fabia closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk skoda fabia : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the strategy 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 skoda fabia 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 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 problematic case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
