If you notice a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will results, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more important restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Chrysler Pacifica is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Chrysler Pacifica can come from accumulated 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 Pacifica : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Chrysler Pacifica triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Chrysler Pacifica, check 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Chrysler Pacifica that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Chrysler Pacifica.
Noise in the trunk of my Chrysler Pacifica : 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 potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Chrysler Pacifica is very often linked to this problem. Different solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is sufficient to solve the problem. 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 circumstance you would have to take out the cover that allows 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 check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Chrysler Pacifica closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chrysler Pacifica : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Chrysler Pacifica linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
