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Date Registered: 02-2004
Location: Panania, Sydney
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Do I hear another Nissan Recall coming on? emoticon

I also experienced this yesterday afternoon. It was an almighty metallic clunk that I could feel very noticably. I am not sure if I felt it through the floor or the pedal. I know if it was the pedal then it would be ABS activating, and have experienced this before, but this clunk was very different. For want of a better description, it felt like someone had run into the back of the X-Trail. I was on sealed road at the time, but had been driving on unsealed road earlier. It only did it the once. I do have a towbar fitted, and there was nothing on the road that might've flicked up and caused the sound. I used to have tape around the slide-out towbar to prevent it rattling on unsealed roads, which has mostly disappeared, however the clunk did not sound like the normal rattle I get from the towbar.

Perhaps I need to check my rear brake pad thickness, however there isn't any squealing or anything else unusual about the brakes... I've done 58,000k's on the stock rear pads, and I think I changed the front ones (to EBC) sooner than others have changed theirs, and the rears still had heaps of life left in them back then.


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Rich,

I am betting it's the rear brake pads going bust. The xtrail doesn't produce any squeaking/warning noises before the brake pads go bust. They straight away produce this grinding noise. 58K on stock rears is pretty damn good and I know you like to squeeze every factory part right until the end before you do something about it LOL emoticon (just like your Toyo tyres)

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At least now I have a good excuse for being such a tight-arse - mortgage rates...

I pulled one of the rear wheels off to check the brake pad thickness and as soon as I looked, and rubbed the brake dust off the part of the back of the pad protruding through the caliper, I remembered I had already changed them to EBC pads... Doh!

So that rules out the pad thickness as the cause of the clunk. I'm still baffled.


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I think I finally discovered the problem.


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Date Registered: 09-2008
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Lol yes, loose things often do go clunk, especially when there are loose/missing bolts.

I have has a similar problem, but on a different vehicle. Turned out to be the d-shackle on the tow bar sliding from side to side on corners.

Bit of insulation tape was a cheap fix.

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