If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will happen, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Ford Escape is thankfully more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ford Escape can come from built up 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 Escape : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Ford Escape generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Ford Escape, check the state 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 Ford Escape that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Ford Escape.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford Escape : 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 possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford Escape is very frequently relating to this problem. Several solutions are existing to you according 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 system with thick grease is appropriate to resolve the problem. 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, 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Ford Escape closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford Escape : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the process 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ford Escape 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 case, 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 unpleasant case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
