If you find out a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing major will happen, it is also possible that it is the indication of a more critical restoration. A noise that appears in the trunk of your Audi Q5 is thankfully more a indication of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a difficult one. To support you in your research, we have decided to compose this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi Q5 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 Q5 : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Audi Q5 caused by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is possible that on a car that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a priority or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up 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 scenario, open the trunk of your Audi Q5, examine 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 difference. 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 Q5 that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to consult this article on the noises at the back of a Audi Q5.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi Q5 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of 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 Q5 is very frequently related to this trouble. Several solutions are available to you depending on 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 fix 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 remove the cover that allows 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Audi Q5 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi Q5 : Rivet following plate change in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate change you were unlucky and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. Indeed, when a plate swap is done, to remove the old one the procedure used is to drill the existing rivets in order 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 Q5 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
