If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will occur, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Chrysler 300 is luckily more a indicator of a small correction or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Chrysler 300 can come from built up dirt, the problem 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 300 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Chrysler 300 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a car 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 problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Chrysler 300, 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 difference. 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 Chrysler 300 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Chrysler 300.
Noise in the trunk of my Chrysler 300 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Chrysler 300 is very often connected to this problem. Some solutions are available to you subject to 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 appropriate to resolve 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 take off 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 connection with the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Chrysler 300 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chrysler 300 : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the process 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Chrysler 300 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 problematic situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
