If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will result, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Volkswagen Atlas is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Atlas 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 Volkswagen Atlas : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Atlas caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable 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 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 situation, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Atlas, verify the condition of the gasket that runs 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 Volkswagen Atlas that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Atlas.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Atlas : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Atlas is very frequently related to this problem. Different solutions are available to you subject to 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 good enough to eliminate 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 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. You should check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Atlas closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Atlas : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 Volkswagen Atlas 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 situation, 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
