If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Chrysler Sebring is luckily more a indication of a small correction or fix, 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 Chrysler Sebring can come from built up 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 Chrysler Sebring : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Chrysler Sebring induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Chrysler Sebring, 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 difference. 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 Sebring that is related 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 Chrysler Sebring.
Noise in the trunk of my Chrysler Sebring : 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 possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Chrysler Sebring is very often related to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you depending on 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 more than enough to resolve 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 case you would have to take out the cover that will allow 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Chrysler Sebring closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Chrysler Sebring : 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. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Sebring linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
