If you notice a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will occur, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Ford Crown Victoria is fortunately more a signal of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ford Crown Victoria can come from accumulated dirt, the problem 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 Crown Victoria : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Ford Crown Victoria caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a automobile 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 problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Ford Crown Victoria, verify 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Ford Crown Victoria that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Ford Crown Victoria.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford Crown Victoria : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford Crown Victoria is very often linked to this problem. Some solutions are available to you depending on 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 system with thick grease is appropriate to resolve the issue. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 enables 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Ford Crown Victoria closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford Crown Victoria : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the process 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ford Crown Victoria linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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.
