If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing serious will results, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Nissan Sentra is luckily more a sign of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Nissan Sentra 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 Sentra : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Nissan Sentra generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this scenario, open the trunk of your Nissan Sentra, 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 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 Sentra that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Nissan Sentra.
Noise in the trunk of my Nissan Sentra : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Nissan Sentra is very often connected to this problem. Several solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is good 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 take off the cover that allows 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Nissan Sentra closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Nissan Sentra : 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 backside your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is done, to remove the old one the technique 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Nissan Sentra linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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.
