If you identify a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will happen, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more critical repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Nissan Qashqai is thankfully more a sign of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Nissan Qashqai 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 Qashqai : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Nissan Qashqai induced 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 top priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers 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 Nissan Qashqai, examine 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 difference. 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 Qashqai that is relating to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content on the noises at the back of a Nissan Qashqai.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Qashqai : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Qashqai is very often relating to this problem. Some solutions are available to you according 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 enough to fix the issue. 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 case 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, simply 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 checking the trunk of your Nissan Qashqai closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Qashqai : 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 out 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Qashqai 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 case, 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 case, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
