If you find a noise on your automobile, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will results, it is also conceivable that it is the indication of a more important repair. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Nissan Almera is fortunately more a indicator of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a difficult one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Nissan Almera 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 Almera : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Nissan Almera triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a automobile 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This trouble triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Nissan Almera, check 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 impact. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Almera that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Nissan Almera.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Almera : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Almera is very frequently connected to this trouble. Several solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is enough to eliminate the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 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 check the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Nissan Almera closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Almera : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Almera linked to a rivet, you will need to check 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
