If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will results, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Fiat Scudo is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Fiat Scudo can come from built up dirt, the trouble 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 Scudo : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Fiat Scudo 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Fiat Scudo, 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 Fiat Scudo that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Fiat Scudo.
Noise in the trunk of my Fiat Scudo : 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 likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Fiat Scudo is very often related to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to solve the trouble. 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 allows 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Fiat Scudo closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Fiat Scudo : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the procedure 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Fiat Scudo linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
