If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will happen, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Mercury Milan is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Mercury Milan can come from built up 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 Mercury Milan : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Mercury Milan created 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Mercury Milan, verify 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 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 Mercury Milan that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Mercury Milan.
Noise in the trunk of my Mercury Milan : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Mercury Milan is very frequently linked to this issue. Some solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is sufficient to solve the trouble. 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 strip off the cover that permits access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Make sure to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Mercury Milan closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Mercury Milan : 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. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to release 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Mercury Milan linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 embarrassing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
