If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing significant will results, it is also possible that it is the sign of a more important repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Nissan Micra 5 is fortunately more a sign of a small adjustment or service, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen 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 Nissan Micra 5 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 Nissan Micra 5 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Nissan Micra 5 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Nissan Micra 5, verify 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 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 Nissan Micra 5 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Nissan Micra 5.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Micra 5 : 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 probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Micra 5 is very frequently linked to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you depending on 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 good enough to resolve 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 circumstance you would have to take out the cover that permits 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 verify the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Nissan Micra 5 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Micra 5 : 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. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 Micra 5 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify the noise. If this is your situation, 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 situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
