If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more important restoration. A noise that shows up in the trunk of your Infiniti QX50 is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or restoration, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Infiniti QX50 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 QX50 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Infiniti QX50 induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Infiniti QX50, check 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 difference. 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 QX50 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Infiniti QX50.
Noise in the trunk of my Infiniti QX50 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, 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 potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Infiniti QX50 is very frequently linked to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you subject 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 system with thick grease is more than enough to eliminate the issue. 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 circumstance you would have to take off the cover that allows 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Infiniti QX50 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Infiniti QX50 : 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. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released the license plate. Sadly, 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 QX50 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 remove 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
