If you acknowledge a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf 3 is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce 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 3 can come from accumulated 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 3 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf 3 caused 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 top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates 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 Volkswagen Golf 3, 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 Volkswagen Golf 3 that is linked 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 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Golf 3 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf 3 is very often linked to this trouble. Some solutions are existing 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 appropriate to fix the trouble. 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 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Golf 3 : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the technique 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf 3 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
