If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more critical repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your volvo v90 is luckily more a signal of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your volvo v90 can come from accumulated dirt, the issue can also come from a loose lock and finally, it can even come from a simple rivet that sits inside your bumper.trunk-noise-volvo-v90

Noise in the trunk volvo v90 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing

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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your volvo v90 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a vehicle 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 issue causes 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 volvo v90, check 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 conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your volvo v90 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a volvo v90.

Noise in the trunk of my volvo v90 : 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 potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your volvo v90 is very often linked to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you subject 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 mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to fix the issue. 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 strip off the cover that will allow 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. Remember to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your volvo v90 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.

Noise in my trunk volvo v90 : 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 technique 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your volvo v90 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 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.