If you find out a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will happen, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Ford Transit Connect is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ford Transit Connect can come from built up 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 Transit Connect : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Ford Transit Connect created 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 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 check if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Ford Transit Connect, examine 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 Ford Transit Connect that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Ford Transit Connect.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford Transit Connect : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford Transit Connect is very frequently linked to this issue. Different solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to resolve the issue. 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 take out the cover that enables 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. You should check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Ford Transit Connect closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford Transit Connect : 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 replacement is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ford Transit Connect linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish the noise. If this is your situation, 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 situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
