If you notice a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will results, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo 5 is luckily more a indication of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complicated 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 Polo 5 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 5 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 5 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo 5, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 5 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Polo 5.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Polo 5 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 5 is very frequently related to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you subject 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 system with thick grease is appropriate 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 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, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo 5 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Polo 5 : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 5 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
