If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will results, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Nissan Armada is fortunately more a sign of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Nissan Armada can come from built up dirt, the trouble 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 Armada : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Nissan Armada triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a automobile 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 trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Nissan Armada, check the state of the gasket that runs 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 impact. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Armada that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Nissan Armada.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Armada : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Armada is very often linked to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is appropriate to fix the problem. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 take out the cover that will allow 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Nissan Armada closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Armada : 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 behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 Armada linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your situation, 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
