If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will occur, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more critical fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Ford Puma is luckily more a signal of a small correction or repair, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ford Puma 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 Puma : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Ford Puma 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Ford Puma, 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Ford Puma that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this article on the noises at the back of a Ford Puma.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford Puma : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, 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 Puma is very frequently connected to this issue. Different solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is enough to solve the problem. 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 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 examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Ford Puma closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford Puma : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ford Puma 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 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
