Trunklid Rattle?
 

Over bumps, rough road, and anything that causes minor body roll, the top part of the trunklid rattles where it mates with the bottom portion of the latch. I have adjusted the rubber mounts on the frame, I have taken off the tunklid trim and tightened what little play there was on the lower mating portion of the latch (the female piece). No luck...still rattles. :( Anybody have this happen and more importantly HAVE A CURE?
2002 3.0 147,000 miles.

i've seen people put a little layer of felt or somehhing on those tabs

I have felt on the rubber stoppers and felt on the latch mechanism. What I mean by that is the part that clicks into the bottom tailgate, the metal part that sticks out from the top tailgate, is covered in felt. One last thing I did was add more felt to the little plastic trap door on the bottom tailgate. When you look at the bottom tailgate close, there is a little plastic door that slides up and down it. I realized that that door didn't have enough padding and would vibrate over bumps. Right now, our X5's trunk is completely silent.

Replace the trunk stoppers with the ones that are sprung, and replace the rubber stoppers on the lid itself. I did the trunk stoppers, and it stopped it for a little bit, but then I realized from 8 years of rattling that the rubber on the hatch had compressed significantly (you can see the imprint of the torx screw on each one), so I need to swap those.

I have the torx screw imprints in the top trunk lid part (the two extensions that hold the lid up). Anybody have a part # for the upper extensions and the rubber bushings with the torx screws?

item 35 or 36
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