Sliding Tray Rattle

[Jeremy556]

Anyone experienced and fixed this?

I though it was my rear hatch or several hundred pounds of recovery and maintenance gear that I carry, but this week pulled everything out to isolate the problem. Over small, sharp bumps it makes a rattling sound that you would swear is the rear hatch, and is incredibly annoying on washboard roads. If I grab the back two corners on the tray and flex them, it perfectly replicates the sound, so I am sure of the cause - movement between the sliding trail and rails.

I noticed white lithium grease on the rails today, so I bought some and plan on pulling out the tray and liberally lubing the rails

. Any other suggestions?

 

[kmiller8821]

Fwiw - mine doesn't make a peep. Try the grease and let us know!

 

[westwind77]

1st I've heard of it...good luck with the fix! Now the sunroof rattle......

 

[adam2562]

my limited i had makes the noise.. it was a 2010.. my 2011 trail doesn't do it

 

[BigredTEX]

1st I've heard of it...good luck with the fix! Now the sunroof rattle......

No rattle what so ever from the tray, but I too have a sunroof rattle.

 

[hamburglar210]

Know it's old but this just popped up for me today. Anyone figure it out?

 

[Jeremy556]

I ended up stuffing blankets under the tray to keep it from rattling. At some point I will remove it, but have to come up with some type of floor as the stock carpet is contoured for the rails.