If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing significant will result, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Audi Sq7 is thankfully more a sign of a small adjustment or restoration, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to write this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi Sq7 can come from accumulated dirt, the issue 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 Sq7 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Audi Sq7 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is plausible that on a vehicle that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Audi Sq7, examine the condition of the gasket that runs 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 difference. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Sq7 that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this content page on the noises at the back of a Audi Sq7.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi Sq7 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most probably alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Audi Sq7 is very often connected to this issue. Different solutions are available to you subject 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 system with thick grease is more than enough to fix the problem. Secondly, it is also plausible 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 remove the cover that enables 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 check the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Audi Sq7 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi Sq7 : 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. Indeed, when a plate replacement is done, to take out the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets in order to released the license plate. Unfortunately, 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 generate an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Sq7 linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to define 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 take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
