If you notice a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will occur, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Fiat Ducato 2 is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help 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 Fiat Ducato 2 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 Fiat Ducato 2 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Fiat Ducato 2 created 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 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 Fiat Ducato 2, 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 difference. 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 2 that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Fiat Ducato 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Ducato 2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat Ducato 2 is very frequently connected to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you subject 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 mechanism with thick grease is sufficient 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 circumstance you would have to strip off 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Fiat Ducato 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Ducato 2 : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is done, to take out the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Ducato 2 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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.
