If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will results, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more significant fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Ford C-max 2 is fortunately more a signal of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided 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 Ford C-max 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 Ford C-max 2 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Ford C-max 2 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 main concern 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 examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Ford C-max 2, 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 C-max 2 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Ford C-max 2.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford C-max 2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford C-max 2 is very frequently connected to this issue. Different solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is good enough to solve the trouble. 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 strip off the cover that permits 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 examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Ford C-max 2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford C-max 2 : 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. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ford C-max 2 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 problematic situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
