If you detect a noise on your automobile, you are right to be careful of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will result, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more significant restoration. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Audi A2 is fortunately more a indication of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have decided to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi A2 can come from built up 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 A2 : Accumulated dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Audi A2 created 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Audi A2, verify the state 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 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 A2 that is linked to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Audi A2.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi A2 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, encounter 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 A2 is very frequently linked to this issue. Several solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough to resolve the problem. 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 strip 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. Make sure to verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after looking at the trunk of your Audi A2 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi A2 : 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 behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take off the old one the strategy 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Audi A2 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, 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 situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
