If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will occur, it is also plausible that it is the indication of a more critical fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Dodge Durango is thankfully more a indicator of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Dodge Durango can come from accumulated dirt, the trouble 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 Dodge Durango : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Dodge Durango 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Dodge Durango, check the state of the gasket that goes 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Dodge Durango that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Dodge Durango.
Noise in the trunk of my Dodge Durango : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience 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 Dodge Durango is very frequently linked to this trouble. Several solutions are existing 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 mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to solve the issue. 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 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Dodge Durango closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Dodge Durango : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Dodge Durango linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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.
