If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will results, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo 6 is thankfully more a signal of a small correction or fix, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 6 can come from built up 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 Polo 6 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 6 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable 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 problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo 6, 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 6 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Polo 6.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Polo 6 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Polo 6 is very frequently related to this problem. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to fix the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 remove 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. Remember to verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Polo 6 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Polo 6 : 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 made, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out the license plate. Sadly, 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 6 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 unpleasant case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
