If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will results, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more significant restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Skoda Karoq is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Skoda Karoq 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 Skoda Karoq : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Skoda Karoq generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 collects 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 Karoq, check 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 impact. 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 Karoq that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Skoda Karoq.
Noise in the trunk of my Skoda Karoq : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Skoda Karoq is very frequently relating to this problem. Several solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally 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 strip off 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. You should check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Skoda Karoq closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Skoda Karoq : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Skoda Karoq linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your case, 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 disturbing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
