If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will occur, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more significant fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Volkswagen Arteon is fortunately more a signal of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Arteon 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 Volkswagen Arteon : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Arteon created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 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 situation, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Arteon, 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Arteon that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Arteon.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Arteon : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Arteon is very often relating to this trouble. Several solutions are existing to you depending on 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 more than enough to solve the trouble. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 take off 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. Don’t forget to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Volkswagen Arteon closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Arteon : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 Volkswagen Arteon linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 embarrassing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
