If you acknowledge a noise on your car, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing critical will result, it is also possible that it is the symptom of a more significant repair. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Audi Sq5 is luckily more a sign of a small correction or repair, rather than a complex one. To help you in your research, we have decided to write this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi Sq5 can come from built up dirt, the problem 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 Sq5 : Built up dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Audi Sq5 created 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 main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt builds up at the trunk gasket. This problem triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To verify if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Audi Sq5, verify 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 possible however that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Sq5 that is connected to other sources such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Audi Sq5.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi Sq5 : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, knowledge a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most potential possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Audi Sq5 is very frequently connected to this problem. Some solutions are existing to you depending on the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is appropriate to fix the issue. 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 will allow 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. You should verify the centering of the striker in regards to the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Audi Sq5 closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi Sq5 : 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 take out the old one the strategy used is to drill the existing rivets to be able 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 induce an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Sq5 linked to a rivet, you will need to verify 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 disturbing situation, you will have to take out the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
