If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will occur, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo 3 is thankfully more a indicator of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 3 can come from accumulated 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 Polo 3 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 3 induced 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 top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble 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 Polo 3, 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 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 Polo 3 that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Polo 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Polo 3 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 3 is very often relating to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to resolve 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Polo 3 : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky 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 technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 3 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 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 problematic case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
