If you notice a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will happen, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more important repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Dodge Caliber is thankfully more a signal of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complicated 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 Dodge Caliber 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 Dodge Caliber : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Dodge Caliber created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible 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 accumulates 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 condition, open the trunk of your Dodge Caliber, verify the condition 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 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 Dodge Caliber that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Dodge Caliber.
Noise in the trunk of my Dodge Caliber : 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 Dodge Caliber is very frequently connected to this trouble. Some solutions are existing 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 mechanism with thick grease is 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 allows 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. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Dodge Caliber closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Dodge Caliber : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the procedure 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Dodge Caliber linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
