If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more critical repair. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Ford B-max is luckily more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ford B-max can come from accumulated 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 Ford B-max : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Ford B-max created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a car 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 trouble triggers 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 B-max, verify 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 impact. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Ford B-max that is related 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 Ford B-max.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford B-max : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford B-max is very frequently related to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you according to 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 good enough to eliminate the issue. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 take out the cover that allows access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, simply 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 checking out the trunk of your Ford B-max closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford B-max : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take off 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 Ford B-max linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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.
