If you find a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more significant repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Ford S-max is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ford S-max 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 S-max : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Ford S-max generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable that on a vehicle 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 issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Ford S-max, check 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 S-max that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Ford S-max.
Noise in the trunk of my Ford S-max : 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. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Ford S-max is very frequently connected to this issue. Different solutions are available 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 mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to resolve 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 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Ford S-max closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ford S-max : 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 swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ford S-max linked to a rivet, you will need to examine 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
