If you acknowledge a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing major will result, it is also conceivable that it is the sign of a more critical fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Audi Rs5 is fortunately more a sign of a small correction or fix, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have chosen to compose this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi Rs5 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 Rs5 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Audi Rs5 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is conceivable that on a vehicle 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 accumulates at the trunk gasket. This issue 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 Rs5, 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 impact. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Rs5 that is linked to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Audi Rs5.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi Rs5 : 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 likely possibilities. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Audi Rs5 is very frequently linked to this issue. Some solutions are existing to you according to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that oftentimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is more than enough to eliminate the trouble. Secondly, it is also conceivable 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 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 examine the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after verifying the trunk of your Audi Rs5 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, duplicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi Rs5 : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell behind your plate. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to take out the old one the process 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 create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Rs5 linked to a rivet, you will need to examine 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 unpleasant situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
