If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will results, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more important fix. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Audi Rs6 is luckily more a indication of a small adjustment or repair, rather than a complicated one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi Rs6 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 Audi Rs6 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Audi Rs6 generated by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is possible that on a automobile 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 condition, open the trunk of your Audi Rs6, examine 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 improvement. 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 Rs6 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Audi Rs6.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi Rs6 : 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 possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Audi Rs6 is very often related to this problem. Different solutions are existing 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 good enough to solve the trouble. 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 circumstance you would have to take out the cover that will allow 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 regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Audi Rs6 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the procedure by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi Rs6 : 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 at the rear of your plate. In fact, when a plate replacement is made, to take off the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to put out 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Rs6 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to identify 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 problematic situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
