Trunk NOT closing

[SRTRICKY]

great...I already have a problem with the srt-10...brand new car and the damn back trunk doesn't close...I gotta slam the crap outta it about 10 times for it to lock. (I actaully started driving with it still open becuase I thought it was closed after hitting it so damn hard how could it not be Does anyoen know if the latch is defective? The trunk also doesn't pop up at all when I hit the trunk release...I can hear it open but it just sits there. Any ideas? (car has less then 67 kms on it)

 

[SRT10]

All you have to do is adjust the strikers on the trunk lid. Easy fix.
See here for more info...
http://vca2.viperclub.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB21&Number=393420&Forum=UBB21&Words=trunk&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=9&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=393420&Search=true#Post393420

 

[FLOORIN04]

Mine shuts very hard almost like you have to slam it.More so when top is down then up.I just figured it has to do with it being some what air tight.Like when a car is new when you try to shut the door and it doesn't but if you put the window down just alittle it shuts easily just my .02

 

[SRTRICKY]

SRT10 Thanks for the link I'll try it out...
Jamie...I'm talking with the top up I still have to slam it so hard that teh whole car shakes and it still doesn't close

 

[SRTRICKY]

Sorry guys I must be really car illiterate...what the heck are strikers and how do I adjust them

 

[FLOORIN04]

http://vca2.viperclub.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB21&Number=501882&Forum=All_Forums&Words=trunk&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=501754&Search=true#Post501882


this may help also

 

[SRTRICKY]

LOL...trust me floorin I did all those steps and then slammed it so hard I thought smething was going to break and the stupid thing still wasn't shut

 

[DSR207]

one on the left and one on the right of the latch mec. I think... tighten both of them

 

[SRTRICKY]

Thanks guys, It worked!!! Gave both of them about a full spin each...what are they there for anyways? Should I just take them off so the trunk closes real easy

unless I just messed around with the wrong thing lol.....(i spun those plastic things that are on each side of the trunk

 

[DSR207]

Quote
"Should I just take them off so the trunk closes real easy "

No...Bad idea

 

[SRTRICKY]

DSR207...do you know what they are there for? Sorry don't know much about stuff like this...also are those the things you guys were telling me to adjust

 

[redsrt03]

I am always catching hell for zinging dodge on the shoddy quality of their "super car", but the number of problems reported on these forums with brand-new, limited-build 85k cars is UNF**KING BIELEVABLE! Are Vipers built by sadistic, one-armed, blind morons or what?

From what I can see of the components (from when my brand-new Viper was torn down for repairs), there are quality components and the design seems adequate.

So what's the problem? How can a car that looks so good, and have that much power and potential, be built to such shoddy standards?

Sorry for de-railing the thread, but Viper owners really need to start putting pressure on dodge to bring the quality up on these cars.

The things are starting to become something of an embarrassment!