If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will occur, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf 6 is fortunately more a indicator of a small correction or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf 6 can come from built up 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 Golf 6 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf 6 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 condition, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf 6, examine 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 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 6 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Golf 6.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Golf 6 : 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 likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Golf 6 is very frequently related to this problem. 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 mechanism with thick grease is good enough 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 case you would have to take out the cover that will allow 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Golf 6 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Golf 6 : 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. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 6 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.
