If you find out 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 occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Volkswagen New Beetle is fortunately more a signal of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen New Beetle can come from accumulated dirt, the issue 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 New Beetle : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen New Beetle 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Volkswagen New Beetle, examine 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 impact. 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 New Beetle that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen New Beetle.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen New Beetle : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen New Beetle is very frequently linked to this issue. Some 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 mechanism with thick grease is good enough to eliminate the problem. 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 take out the cover that permits 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 looking at the trunk of your Volkswagen New Beetle closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen New Beetle : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is done, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 New Beetle linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
