If you identify a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will results, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more important repair. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Audi Q7 is thankfully more a sign of a small correction or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi Q7 can come from accumulated dirt, the trouble 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 Audi Q7 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Audi Q7 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a vehicle 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 collects at the trunk gasket. This trouble 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 Audi Q7, 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Q7 that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this content page on the noises at the back of a Audi Q7.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi Q7 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, experience a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most probably possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Audi Q7 is very often related to this trouble. Some solutions are available to you depending on 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 mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to resolve 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 off 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. You should examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Audi Q7 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi Q7 : 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 made, to take off the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 cause an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Q7 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 off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
