If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will happen, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Volvo XC60 is luckily more a indication of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Volvo XC60 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.
Noise in the trunk Volvo XC60 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Volvo XC60 induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Volvo XC60, 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Volvo XC60 that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Volvo XC60.
Noise in the trunk of my Volvo XC60 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Volvo XC60 is very frequently relating to this issue. Several solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is more than enough to fix the trouble. Secondly, it is also possible 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Volvo XC60 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Volvo XC60 : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Volvo XC60 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 case, 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 disturbing case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
