If you acknowledge a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will results, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf is luckily more a signal of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write 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 Golf 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 Golf : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf, 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 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 Golf that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Golf.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Golf : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience 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 Volkswagen Golf is very frequently related to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you according to 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 appropriate to eliminate the issue. 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 remove the cover that allows 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. Make sure to verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Golf : 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. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the procedure 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
