If you pay attention to a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will result, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more critical repair. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Nissan Navara is fortunately more a sign of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Nissan Navara can come from built up dirt, the issue 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 Navara : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Nissan Navara induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Nissan Navara, verify the condition 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 improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Navara that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Nissan Navara.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Navara : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Navara is very often related to this issue. Some solutions are existing 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 enough to solve the trouble. Secondly, it is also possible that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which case you would have to take off the cover that enables 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. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Nissan Navara closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Navara : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Navara linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
