If you pay attention to a noise on your automobile, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will occur, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Infiniti Q60 is fortunately more a indicator of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Infiniti Q60 can come from accumulated 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 Infiniti Q60 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Infiniti Q60 created by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a automobile that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem 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 Infiniti Q60, 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 Infiniti Q60 that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Infiniti Q60.
Noise in the trunk of my Infiniti Q60 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Infiniti Q60 is very frequently relating to this problem. Several solutions are available to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that quite often the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to eliminate the problem. 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 strip off the cover that permits access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, simply push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. You should examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Infiniti Q60 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Infiniti Q60 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take out the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Infiniti Q60 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 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 disturbing case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
