If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will results, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more critical fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Skoda Kodiaq is luckily more a signal of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Skoda Kodiaq 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 Skoda Kodiaq : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Skoda Kodiaq caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Skoda Kodiaq, verify 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Skoda Kodiaq that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Skoda Kodiaq.
Noise in the trunk of my Skoda Kodiaq : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, 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. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Skoda Kodiaq is very frequently connected to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough to fix 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 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, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. You should examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Skoda Kodiaq closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Skoda Kodiaq : 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. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Skoda Kodiaq linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
