If you identify 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 result, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more significant fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Volkswagen Touran 3 is fortunately more a indicator of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Touran 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 Touran 3 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Touran 3 caused 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects 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 circumstance, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Touran 3, check the condition 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 Touran 3 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Touran 3.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Touran 3 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Touran 3 is very frequently connected to this trouble. Different solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to resolve 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 case you would have to take out 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. Make sure to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Volkswagen Touran 3 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volkswagen Touran 3 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the strategy 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Touran 3 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 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
