If you acknowledge a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will result, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more important restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Volkswagen Lupo is thankfully more a indicator of a small correction or service, rather than a complex one. To support 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 Lupo 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 Lupo : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Lupo triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a automobile 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers 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 Lupo, verify 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 impact. 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 Lupo 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 Lupo.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Lupo : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Lupo is very frequently related to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you subject to 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 sufficient to fix 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 take 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Lupo closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Lupo : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the procedure 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 Lupo linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 disturbing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
