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    Odd spring creaking noise that repeats exactly 6 times from the interior

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    Around 4 minutes after starting the car in the morning and driving, I hear this strange spring/creaking noise that repeats exactly 6 times coming from the front cup holder area. Has anyone else heard this before?

    I suspect it is electrical in nature, rather than being mechanical. I hear a similar noise when I touch the door handle sensor for the keyless entry, except its much more faint.

    here is what it sounds like:

    http://vid1064.photobucket.com/album...psudbuifvt.mp4

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    Funky.. Curious to know what that is.

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    Ha. Weird. Sounds like a disc spinning in the CD player having issues loading. You got a CD in there?

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    FYI i have it too. Sounds like mine comes from my In dash head unit. At least that general vicinity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by audibmi View Post
    Around 4 minutes after starting the car in the morning and driving, I hear this strange spring/creaking noise that repeats exactly 6 times coming from the front cup holder area. Has anyone else heard this before?

    I suspect it is electrical in nature, rather than being mechanical. I hear a similar noise when I touch the door handle sensor for the keyless entry, except its much more faint.

    here is what it sounds like:

    http://vid1064.photobucket.com/album...psudbuifvt.mp4
    try starting your car with the climate system completely off or turn it off right away.

    I'm betting its the flaps inside the dash that change the air flow direction that have become brittle and one or two is probably broken causing your noise.

    edit: completely wrong, just listened to the link -- definitely not the noise I'm thinking of.
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    This is an interesting sound.

    I have discovered a sound somewhere on the left side (driver or rear left passenger door) that sounds like a CD is rolling back and forth when I turn. Not sure if this is related to your sound, which sounds more like a scratching CD.
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    I have the exact same sound emitting somewhere from the dash area. I have not pinpointed where it might be coming from since it occurs when I am driving. Curious to find out what it might be.
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    Ha! I have the exact same thing too! I cannot figure out what it is either, mine sounds like the dash.

    I do not have a CD in.

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    Yes, it's odd I never noticed this from my 2013 S4, but I can get this to duplicate every morning in my 2015 S4, 4 minutes into driving. No CD in the head unit either.

    For those that hear this noise, is it random, or do you hear it at a regular interval, like in my case, 4 minutes after a cold start?

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    I have this same sound lol. Always on a cold start. It happens as soon as I leave the driveway and get up pass 5mph. No idea what it is... sounds to me it's coming from the front passenger side somewhere.
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    Scared the crap out of me just now haha. Doesnt sound normal so i hope you can figure it out and get it fixed.

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    I don't even have to listen to your video to confirm that my 2015 S4 does the same thing. It's coming from the center console area, maybe from the CD player? Almost sounds like a metallic scraping noise. Repeats 5 or 6 times in steady succession typically early in a drive cycle. Mine is not ambient temperature dependent.
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    13 S5 here, and mine does this also, every time after initial start up, and passing about 5-10 MPH. It is strange, but also perfectly normal.
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    My 2012 does this. To me it sounds like the noise goes left and right on every other squeak. I have a B&O and I suspect it is something with the audio system setting some form of calibration. Why it would do it every time, I have no idea.

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    COunt me in for this same noise in my car. 2014 here. Sounded like some weird metal on metal scraping, but from the dashboard....
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    I listened intently for this noise this morning and my car doesn't do it.

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    I heard mine do it this morning. It was within 2 minutes after starting and driving off. It made the sound 10 times. I'll keep an ear open tomorrow morning to see if it's the same timing and number of noises.
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    Reset your MMI and see if you hear it (you will - at least I do). It has something to do with the MMI starting up/doing whatever it does for early initialization once it boots up. What/why, I'm not yet sure.

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    Come to think of it, it sounds more like a HDD is being read. Maybe it's the HDD used for the jukebox?

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    HDD was my original suspicion as the MMI obviously has one to store maps and such. Spinning disk, cd-rom sounds, it's plausible.

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    Subliminal messaging from VAG... You are on to something.

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    thank you for all the replies and confirmation that this noise is not an isolated case. I confirmed this morning again that the noise is distinctly different to the mmi hard drive spinning.

    at this point, I doubt there is a fix and will probably have to live with this annoying sound. mental note to self...turn up the volume on the radio

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    Do you have a different sound now than in the video?

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    I heard mine for the first time this morning, after reading this thread. Ignorance was bliss, but now I'll be hearing it all the time. 2014 DSG with B&O and nav

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    I think you guys have crickets living in your cars.

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    I read somewhere that it may have something to do with the keyless start, and that the noise would not be produced if the key is inserted... anyone else know about this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by khyungs View Post
    I read somewhere that it may have something to do with the keyless start, and that the noise would not be produced if the key is inserted... anyone else know about this?

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    I always drive with the key out of the ignition and I've never heard it in my car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by khyungs View Post
    I read somewhere that it may have something to do with the keyless start, and that the noise would not be produced if the key is inserted... anyone else know about this?
    as I noted it my first post, I mentioned that the noise was similar to the when I touch the door sensor. might be onto something here. tried using the key to start the car and no noise detected this morning. will see if this consistently works to eliminate the noise.

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    update: after several days of testing having the key inserted vs. keyless, I confirm the key inserted consistently eliminates this strange noise.

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    Very interesting. To be clear, you never hear it with the key inserted?

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    Mine does it as well, I don't believe every day but maybe sometimes I just don't notice it. as an added level of sensitivity that I tend to have to noises and such, I almost feel like I can feel it ever so slightly in the gas pedal as it makes the noise. anyone else notice that? I have a 2015 tech pkg, black optic, leather, 6spd MT, without B/O sound. I thought it was potentially some sort of sensor maybe checking the tire rotational mass for the tire pressure sensor???? who knows. never have a CD in the changer also.

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    Did anybody figure out what this sound was?


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    i was advised by audi service tech that is was the keyless antenna searching for key. they placed some sound deadening material around the antenna to muffle the sound, but its still audible.

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    Interesting. Since it's gotten warmer out, I have not heard this sound. Wonder why the car would be searching for the key if the car had already been started.

    Weird.




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    For those having this issue perhaps replacing the battery in your keys with a fresh one will alleviate the problem if it's the keyless antenna "looking" for the key making the noise. Perhaps the battery in the key is getting weak causing the car to "search" for it?

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