If you acknowledge a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will results, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volkswagen Rabbit is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Rabbit 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 Rabbit : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Rabbit 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Rabbit, 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 improvement. 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 Rabbit that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Rabbit.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Rabbit : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Rabbit is very frequently related to this problem. Several solutions are existing to you according 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 more than enough to solve the trouble. 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 take out the cover that allows 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. Make sure to examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Rabbit closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Rabbit : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 Rabbit linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, 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 situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
