Very quickly after I set off --just seconds really- I get a loud click clunk as the doors lock.  Sometime later --it is quite variable- while on the move I get a far quieter -faint even- click clunk from the tail gate.   It is a Fabia Combi 2017.

Logically it is probably the tail gate unlocking.     But why would that be?  Automatic locking was invented to stop people being car-jacked at the first set of traffic lights on the journey.  So why would it unlock?   Or is it the tail gate locking?

I don't think so because my wife has been denied access trying to open the tail gate after she has followed me down the road to detach the security chain across the road.

Needless to say I can find nothing in the handbook and needless to say this is just curiosity nothing important. (unless it should not be doing whatever it is doing.)

Any ideas please.  Thanks

 

Hi - assuming that it might be the tail-gate --

a.  Is the tail-gate properly closed? 

 

b.  If it is opening - even half-off the latch - the Door-Open display should show on the MaxiDot.  

 

Are you absolutely sure that it's the tail-gate ?  

Might the noise have some other source?

A rear suspension issue ?

The fuel pump noise that some people hear ?  

The back seat back-rest not fully locked in, on one or other side?

"Something" in the boot !!!???  ( in the spare tyre well ? )

 

Sounds like the sort of noise that would drive many of us nuts !!! ( Which is often the cue to suggest turning up the radio.  )

Edited 16 December, 20178 yr by Dithane