If you find out a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will happen, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Ford Ka is fortunately more a sign of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have decided 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 Ka 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 Ford Ka : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Ford Ka 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 check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Ford Ka, verify 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 impact. 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 Ka that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Ford Ka.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford Ka : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford Ka is very frequently linked to this trouble. Some solutions are existing to you depending on 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 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 circumstance you would have to remove the cover that permits 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. Remember to check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Ford Ka closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford Ka : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released the license plate. Sadly, 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 Ka 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 case, 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 case, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
