If you notice a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will result, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more significant restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Dodge Dart is luckily more a indication of a small correction or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Dodge Dart 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 Dodge Dart : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
>
We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Dodge Dart created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile 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 check if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Dodge Dart, 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 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 Dodge Dart that is linked 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 Dodge Dart.
Noise in the trunk of my Dodge Dart : 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 potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Dodge Dart is very frequently linked to this problem. Several 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 sufficient to eliminate the problem. 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 case you would have to strip off the cover that will allow 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. You should check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Dodge Dart closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Dodge Dart : 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 take out the old one the procedure 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Dodge Dart linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to distinguish 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 unpleasant case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
