The rear hatch has been rattling, like a door that is ajar, on my truck since we got it. Until now I had just been taking strips of sheet metal and wrapping them around the latch and then using duct tape to hold them on. I'd have to redo that once every month and I've gotten tired of doing that.

It is as if the latch plate (in the truck) needs to be further forward. Is there any way to adjust it so that it won't rattle every time I hit a bump?

UPDATE:
ok, my impatience prevailed for once. I decided I was going to go outside and fumble with it and see if I could figure something out until I got an answer, and I did. I loosened the two torx-40 bolts on the latch plate, thinking I would take it off and weld a piece of sheet metal to the latch, but when I loosened them I discovered that you can move it around. So I just kept moving it forward a little at a time until I got it into the right position.

Now after it's been rattling away for years it's finally fixed!

 

Thanks for the tip guy.

 

no problem, hopefully this will help someone else down the lines, because I can remember it rattling years ago when my mom still drove it

 

Nice advice. Mine is rattling but ill keep this in mind for when it does rattle