Clicking noise on rear tailgate from metal slider that connects door to vehicle
 

Hi,

Hoping to get some info as to whether this is normal or not...

The metal 'slider arm' that connects the rear tailgate door to the rear of the vehicle makes clicking noises as I close the door. I looked underneath at the slider and it seems to click on several spots along the path. Is this normal?

Perfectly normal.

I want to clarify my question a bit...the clicking isn't just the noise the door makes when you shut it. I mean that it makes several clicking noises as the door is going from wide open to completely shut. The 'slider arm' looking at it from underneath seems to bump up a little along several points in its path to closing..

Those bumps are the intervals the mechanism will hold the door at. Same as your drivers door.

You can hold it open at different angles.

The mechanism has a strap or bar with a slot and at intervals those 'bumps' are where the door is held. Make sense?

Totally makes sense, but should the intervals be making clicking or clunking noises as the door is closing?

If you want to quieten it down you could get some thick grease involved.

If it is still really noisy then something could be off.

How about shooting some WD-40 in there?

The slider has a couple sprung detents, over which the stay arm's carriage passes, making a very audible clunk as it does so. Many owners and I include myself in that have taken to stay off to see if it is possible to quieten it, but I've yet to come across one who has succeeded. In the end we have all just cleaned it and repacked it with grease.

Don't use WD40 it's to thin and will make it worse.