If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing serious will occur, it is also plausible that it is the sign of a more significant restoration. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Nissan Pathfinder is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or service, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to produce this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Nissan Pathfinder 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 Pathfinder : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Nissan Pathfinder 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 priority 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 scenario, open the trunk of your Nissan Pathfinder, examine 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 impact. 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 Pathfinder that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Nissan Pathfinder.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Pathfinder : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Pathfinder is very frequently relating to this problem. Several solutions are available to you according 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 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 remove 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. Be sure you examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Nissan Pathfinder closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Pathfinder : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is done, 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Pathfinder linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to specify 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 embarrassing situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
