If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will happen, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Chrysler Town & Country is luckily more a signal of a small manipulation or service, rather than a difficult one. To help 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 Chrysler Town & Country 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 Chrysler Town & Country : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Chrysler Town & Country triggered 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue 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 Chrysler Town & Country, examine 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 Chrysler Town & Country that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Chrysler Town & Country.
Noise in the trunk of my Chrysler Town & Country : 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 alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Chrysler Town & Country is very often 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 enough to eliminate 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 enables 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 check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Chrysler Town & Country closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chrysler Town & Country : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate change is made, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Chrysler Town & Country linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify the noise. If this is your case, you will have to take out 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
