If you identify a noise on your automobile, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will happen, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more important repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Ford Mondeo is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ford Mondeo 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 Mondeo : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Ford Mondeo triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile 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 trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Ford Mondeo, examine 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 improvement. 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 Mondeo that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Ford Mondeo.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford Mondeo : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford Mondeo is very often linked to this trouble. Different solutions are available 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 mechanism with thick grease is sufficient 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 case 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Ford Mondeo closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford Mondeo : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ford Mondeo linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
