If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing major will results, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Nissan Maxima is fortunately more a signal of a small adjustment or fix, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Nissan Maxima can come from accumulated 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 Maxima : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Nissan Maxima induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this condition, open the trunk of your Nissan Maxima, 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 Nissan Maxima that is relating to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content on the noises at the back of a Nissan Maxima.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Maxima : 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 probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Maxima is very frequently relating to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that in some cases the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to solve the problem. 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 take 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Nissan Maxima closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Maxima : 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 at the rear of your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is made, to take out the old one the strategy 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Maxima linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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.
