I just bought a '16 Versa SV yesterday that has been in a previous rear end collision and repaired receiving a rebuilt title with only 10K miles on the odometer. While I was at the car lot where I bought the car since it had been in a rear end collision I opened and closed the trunk and everything was fine. After driving about 35-40 miles home when I got home the trunk lid was closed but when I went outside an hour or so later the trunk lid was open. Possibly the button on the key fob got pushed while the key was in my pocket with other keys/change but when I tried to close it it wouldn't latch. I know this is probably just the latch/striker needs adjustment but where should I start.with the latch or the striker. If anyone has ever had this problem please advise me how to take care of the problem and pictures could be helpful. This Nissan is going to be a learning experience, I've owned and driven Ford Escorts over the past 25 years.

Just went out to the garage to see if I could figure out what the problem was. Apparently when I opened the trunk at the dealer yesterday it didn't fully release or the catch in the latch locked while the lid was open and when I closed it back it pushed the latch in the lock beyond where it was supposed to be but still somehow caught. I was able to take a screwdriver and get the latch fully opened as it should be and now everything is fine. I just wanted to post the solution in case this ever happens to anyone else. If you ever need to do any adjustment to the trunk latch or strike the adjustment is in the strike. I can be moved side to side and up and down. I've got to get used to people on this forum now and start learning about the Versa. I've owned at least 1 Ford Escort ever since 1993 and have been a member at FEOA I think for about 20 years. I currently have 4 Escorts in running condition but since I've got the Versa now I think I may thin out the heard of Escorts and bring it down to about 2. I'll definitely keep the '97 wagon that has 41K original miles and probably the '02 with 176K I was using as my daily driver.

I'm ex-Ford for 40 years myself. Fairly new to Nissan.

Take note that the Versa trunk lid bumpers out on the corners can greatly affect the trunk strike to latch too. Up too far to take up accident slack they can hold the lid up just enough to not fully latch. Or too low they will let the latch mechanism go over center to go too far like you said.

I just hope I have as good of luck with the Nissan as I have with Ford over the years. One of the 5 Escorts I've owned over the past 26 years was my daily driver for many years while I was working construction. It wasn't uncommon to be on jobs where it would get 100-200 miles per day put on it. When I retired it it had 518K miles. The body was pretty rough and it was using quite a bit of oil but it made it all those miles and never had the head off of it. I did have to pull the oil pan off of it one time to replace the oil pan gasket and clean the screen in the oil pump. It had got so it used so much oil I'd pour the oil that I drained out of my other cars at oil change back in the empty bottles and use it for topping off oil in the '88. I probably done this for at least the last 100K miles and it just kept on running. The reason I quit driving it when I did was because I was going to have to pull the oil pan off again to clean the oil pump screen and the fuel pump was getting weak and was going to have to be replaced again. All that just amounted to more work than I wanted to do to it. I could have done all the work myself but the fuel tank had to be dropped to put in a new fuel pump and the catalytic converter had to come off to remove the oil pan. I'd dropped the tank a couple times before to replace the fuel pump and it wasn't an easy job getting it back in place by yourself.

You should cut a hole under the back seat to install those pumps with tank in place, once done no more problems and you can change a pump then in 30 minutes. What I did on my Focus cars.

I had no trouble with keeping the cars running at all, but it's the crap things that kept breaking, the cars are junk. Ford got reliable enough they let the rest of the car go to crap and little things break so much you get tired of it. On the Focus cars I kept a list of 'nuisance' breakage parts and got up to 50 things I thought should last longer than they did and I called Ford quits when I hit that number. My '02 had already broken several things by the time the car hit 50K miles, I changed all 4 window regulators twice and began to rebuild the broken ones myself as I could make those last longer than official Ford parts did. Same with door latch assemblies. I learned to take most of the broken parts and simply fix them for pennies to use again, they cost way too much to buy over.

The motors and transmissions last forever, but the rest of the car is crap. Nissan is beginning to look the same way.

The '94, '97 and '02 Escorts that I have all have fuel pump access ports under the rear seat but back in the '80's when they first started installing fuel pumps in the tank they didn't put an access port in so the tank had to be dropped. Biggest problems I've had with my Escorts are front end components (ball joint, tie rod ends) not lasting very good. On the '88 that went 500K miles I'd change the tie rod ends and ball joints approximately every 100K miles. I'm hearing a knocking sometimes when I hit bumps in the road in the '02 now. As soon as the weather breaks I'm going to have to see about it, I'm suspecting a bad tie rod end.