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A sometimes common reason trunk rubbers leak, is the channel they sit in, is either not well matched to the lid at factory, or over years since, heavy items being roughly put in trunk can sometimes bend the metal it made of, if the heavy item let sit on the lip/rubber area as put into trunk?!
Not suggested for children - climb in the trunk with someone you trust to close the lid, and when it fully closed, see if any daylight/light comes in around the edges/rubber. If it does, check and see if where the rubber sits has been bent down, and if so use say a rubber tyre mallet to tap up from underneath the metal outer surround up where it seems too low. Or if you have a panel guy, go there and get him to check - be careful not to damage stuff, use a panel guy if in doubt.. BUT IF YOUR TRUNK RUBBER HAS OBVIOUS BITS MISSING, ignore this suggestion until you have a good rubber, Christopher in Australia - bloody heck, just realised on the 16th and 18th April, the 2 'newer of my 3 300Cs celebrate another birthday of their 'creation' on those dates 1957 - and what a different world it is today!!? To: kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx; MRS954@xxxxxxx CC: jmaiani@xxxxxxxxxxx; Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:59:05 -0500 Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Replace truck weather-stripping? Not factory, but had this are problem with my E. Finally put some black household door weather strip on the trunk side of the gasket where isn't very noticeable. Problem solved. Agree with others to use strips if newspaper or similar to find where not sealing. Mine was only at the back window edge of the trunk, so hardly notice the fix. Depends how factory u want Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.
Because Chrysler typically had such awful body panel fits, even if you install a new trunk gasket you may still find the trunk lid is not sealed. To make sure of it after your installation, take a tough new dollar bill or a piece of Tyvek house wrap and pull it through between the gasket and the trunk lid all the way around the perimeter. If you find gaps, you will need to find a way to "plump out" the gasket in those areas. You might even have to slip a short piece of bell wire behind the gasket if the gap is large. When you're done, the Tyvek should exhibit friction when pulling it out all the way around the lid. Keith Boonstra - On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:50 PM, 'Mark Souders' MRS954@xxxxxxx [Chrysler300] <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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