If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will result, it is also conceivable that it is the symptom of a more critical fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Nissan Rogue is thankfully more a signal of a small adjustment or service, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Nissan Rogue can come from built up dirt, the problem can also come from a loose lock and finally, it can even come from a simple rivet that sits inside your bumper.
Noise in the trunk Nissan Rogue : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Nissan Rogue triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Nissan Rogue, verify the condition of the gasket that goes around the entire tailgate and clean it with a wet/soap cloth, dry the whole thing and try to close the trunk and take a dentred road to see the improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Rogue that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Nissan Rogue.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Rogue : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Rogue is very often related to this problem. Several solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is enough to resolve the issue. Secondly, it is also conceivable that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which circumstance you would have to remove the cover that allows access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Don’t forget to verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Nissan Rogue closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Rogue : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released the license plate. Unfortunately, it can happen that part of the rivet falls into the hole of the bumper and it will therefore wander inside the bumper and can provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Rogue linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define the noise. If this is your case, you will have to take out the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more problematic case, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
