If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will result, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more significant restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your skoda octavia is fortunately more a signal of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your skoda octavia 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 octavia : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your skoda octavia induced 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your skoda octavia, check 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 difference. 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 octavia that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a skoda octavia.
Noise in the trunk of my skoda octavia : 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 potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your skoda octavia is very frequently linked to this trouble. Different solutions are available 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 sufficient to eliminate the issue. 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, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Remember to check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your skoda octavia closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk skoda octavia : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 skoda octavia 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 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 out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
