If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will occur, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf 5 is fortunately more a signal of a small correction or repair, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf 5 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 5 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf 5 caused 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 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 examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf 5, verify the state 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 difference. 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 5 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Golf 5.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Golf 5 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge 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 Volkswagen Golf 5 is very often linked to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to fix 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 out 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf 5 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 5 : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate change is done, 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 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 5 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
