If you find a noise on your car, you are right to be attentive of it and take it seriously, although it is plausible that nothing critical will occur, it is also plausible that it is the signal of a more important restoration. A noise that comes out in the trunk of your Audi S5 is luckily more a indicator of a small manipulation or repair, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this article to present you with the most likely solutions to your trouble. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi S5 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 S5 : Built up dirt that causes poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Audi S5 triggered by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. In fact, it is plausible that on a car 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 builds up at the trunk gasket. This trouble causes a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To examine if you are in this circumstance, open the trunk of your Audi S5, check 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 plausible however that you have a trunk noise on your Audi S5 that is related to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to have a look to this article on the noises at the back of a Audi S5.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi S5 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second possibility, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. In fact, knowing a trunk noise on your Audi S5 is very frequently related to this trouble. Several solutions are existing to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that occasionally the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the system with thick grease is good enough to eliminate 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 strip off the cover that allows 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. Don’t forget to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking the trunk of your Audi S5 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the operation by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi S5 : 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. In fact, when a plate swap is made, to remove the old one the technique used is to drill the existing rivets in order to release 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 trigger an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Audi S5 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 remove the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
