If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will happen, it is also plausible that it is the symptom of a more important restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Ram P/U is luckily more a sign of a small correction or repair, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Ram P/U can come from built up 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 Ram P/U : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Ram P/U induced 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 priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue 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 Ram P/U, examine 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 difference. 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 Ram P/U that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Ram P/U.
Noise in the trunk of my Ram P/U : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, 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 likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Ram P/U is very frequently relating to this issue. Some 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 appropriate to resolve the trouble. 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 case you would have to take off the cover that permits 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. Be sure you verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Ram P/U closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Ram P/U : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to put out 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Ram P/U linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 disturbing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
