If you notice a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will happen, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Volkswagen Passat is fortunately more a signal of a small correction or service, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate 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 Passat can come from accumulated 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 Passat : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat generated 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Passat , check 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 Passat that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Passat .
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Passat : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat is very often relating to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to solve 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 case you would have to strip off the cover that will allow 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Volkswagen Passat closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Passat : 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 replacement is done, to take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify the noise. If this is your case, 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 case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
