If you find out a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will result, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more significant fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Infiniti QX70 is thankfully more a indication of a small correction or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Infiniti QX70 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 QX70 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Infiniti QX70 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 situation, open the trunk of your Infiniti QX70, verify the state 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Infiniti QX70 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 Infiniti QX70.
Noise in the trunk of my Infiniti QX70 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Infiniti QX70 is very often related to this problem. Different solutions are available to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is good enough to resolve the issue. 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 strip off 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. 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 QX70 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Infiniti QX70 : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Infiniti QX70 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 problematic case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
