If you notice 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 results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Volkswagen Transporter 5 is luckily more a indicator of a small correction or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volkswagen Transporter 5 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 Transporter 5 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Transporter 5 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, 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 problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Volkswagen Transporter 5, check the condition of the gasket that goes 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 Transporter 5 that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Volkswagen Transporter 5.
Noise in the trunk of my Volkswagen Transporter 5 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Transporter 5 is very frequently relating to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to eliminate the problem. 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 strip 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volkswagen Transporter 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 Transporter 5 : 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 take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volkswagen Transporter 5 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, you will have to take out 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 take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
