If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will occur, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volvo Xc40 is luckily more a signal of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complex one. To help 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 Volvo Xc40 can come from built up 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 Volvo Xc40 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Volvo Xc40 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble 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 Xc40, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Volvo Xc40 that is linked 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 Volvo Xc40.
Noise in the trunk of my Volvo Xc40 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volvo Xc40 is very often linked to this trouble. Several solutions are available 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 sufficient to eliminate the issue. 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 take 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. Make sure to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Volvo Xc40 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volvo Xc40 : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volvo Xc40 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 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
