If you pay attention to a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will results, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more important fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volkswagen Passat 7 is luckily more a indicator of a small correction or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat 7 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 Passat 7 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat 7 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Passat 7, 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat 7 that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Passat 7.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Passat 7 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat 7 is very often linked to this issue. Several solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to fix the trouble. 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 case 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Passat 7 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Passat 7 : 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. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Passat 7 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 case, 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 case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
