If you detect a noise on your car, you are right to be aware of it and take it seriously, although it is possible that nothing serious will happen, it is also possible that it is the signal of a more significant fix. A noise that happens in the trunk of your Audi Tt is thankfully more a indicator of a small manipulation or fix, rather than a complex one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to produce this content to present you with the most likely solutions to your problem. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Audi Tt 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 Tt : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore start with a trunk noise on your Audi Tt generated 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 problem 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 Tt, check the condition of the gasket that goes 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 Tt that is related to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content on the noises at the back of a Audi Tt.
Noise in the trunk of my Audi Tt : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, encounter a locking system that has taken up some play. And this is one of the most likely alternatives. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Audi Tt is very frequently related to this problem. Several solutions are available 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 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 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. Remember to examine the centering of the striker in connection with the trunk lock. If after checking out the trunk of your Audi Tt closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, replicate the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Audi Tt : 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 backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate replacement is made, to take off the old one the technique 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 provoke an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Audi Tt 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 remove 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 take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
