If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will results, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Dodge Avenger is thankfully more a indication of a small correction or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Dodge Avenger can come from accumulated dirt, the issue 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 Avenger : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Dodge Avenger created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible 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 issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Dodge Avenger, verify 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 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 Dodge Avenger that is linked 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 Dodge Avenger.
Noise in the trunk of my Dodge Avenger : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Dodge Avenger is very often linked to this issue. Some solutions are available to you depending on 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 good enough to eliminate 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 circumstance you would have to take out the cover that enables 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 examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Dodge Avenger closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Dodge Avenger : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the strategy 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Dodge Avenger linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your situation, 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 problematic situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
