If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will occur, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Ford Flex is thankfully more a signal of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen 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 Ford Flex 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 Ford Flex : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Ford Flex triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 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 Ford Flex, check the condition 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 Ford Flex that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Ford Flex.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford Flex : 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 alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford Flex is very often linked to this issue. Some solutions are available to you depending on 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 appropriate to solve the problem. 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 case you would have to strip off the cover that permits access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, just 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 regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Ford Flex closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford Flex : 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 change is done, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 Ford Flex linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
