If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Fiat Ducato is luckily more a indication of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Fiat Ducato 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 Fiat Ducato : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Fiat Ducato triggered 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 verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Fiat Ducato, check the condition of the gasket that goes 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 Fiat Ducato 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 Fiat Ducato.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Ducato : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat Ducato is very frequently relating to this issue. Different solutions are available to you according 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 system with thick grease is good enough to eliminate 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 take out the cover that will allow 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 verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Fiat Ducato closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Ducato : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to remove the old one the procedure 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Ducato 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 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 problematic case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
