If you pay attention to a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will results, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Dacia Dokker is thankfully more a indication of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Dacia Dokker 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 Dacia Dokker : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Dacia Dokker caused 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 main concern 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 Dacia Dokker, check 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Dacia Dokker that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Dacia Dokker.
Noise in the trunk of my Dacia Dokker : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Dacia Dokker is very frequently related to this problem. Different solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is good enough to eliminate the issue. 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 circumstance 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, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Remember to check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Dacia Dokker closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Dacia Dokker : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Dacia Dokker linked to a rivet, you will need to check 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 disturbing case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
