Boot will not close on 55 plate A6

[lukecollins]

Hi Guys any ideas of how to keep the boot lid locked and down, it will not close or lock. It leaves the boot open alarm running on the dash, tried several times and managed to keep it closed but the boot open symbol is still on at the dash. Thanks Luke

[beano500]

Had this problem on my 03 in 2007.

Dealers were a waste of time - I've never seen someone try and SMASH a boot closed like it ever!!!!

Needless to say that is not the answer.

You need to take the whole interior boot panel off (mine's still only partly on) and investigate the entire mechanism. There is an electronic switch which might fail - the dealer made me buy one and then it turned out this was not the issue. An independent fixed it for me, only for it to fail a couple of days later, so I disconneced the electronics and got down to making the linkage work, which just needs a good deal of fiddling 'til the mechanism was tight enough for it to work, but not so tight that it doesn't (you'll see what I mean when you take it apart.

Once you have the mechanism working you should have the lock working. Whether you fix up the remote switch again is up to you. It's a pretty shoddy piece of engineering all round, though (not unlike several other cr@ppy bits on these cars )