{"id":3100,"date":"2017-03-12T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2024-09-18T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:30:23","slug":"fix-audi-a8-d3-soft-close-trunk-not-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/fix-audi-a8-d3-soft-close-trunk-not-closing.html","title":{"rendered":"Fix Audi A8 D3 Soft Close Trunk NOT Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>My 2006 A8L D3 soft close trunk latch stop closing, I could hear the soft close mechanism moving but the latch doesn&#8217;t move up to catch the lid latch, hence the trunk doesn&#8217;t close itself, it needs a strong slam manually.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The soft close latch has a spring to pull the latch up when the lid is opened. When the spring broke due to old age, the latch no longer catch the trunk lid due to height. Instead of going out and by the spring, I just fixed it. It works perfectly, just how long is the question.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Spring latch position\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_05-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Spring latch position\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_05-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_05-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_05.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_08.jpg\" title=\"Spring latch fixed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_08-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Spring latch fixed\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_08-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_08-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spring_08.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"NBF-_sQRpGI\"><\/div><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2006 A8L D3 soft close trunk latch stop closing, I could hear the soft close mechanism moving but the latch doesn&#8217;t move up to catch the lid latch, hence the trunk doesn&#8217;t close itself, it needs a strong slam manually. The soft close latch has a spring to pull the latch up when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/fix-audi-a8-d3-soft-close-trunk-not-closing.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,1],"tags":[652,653,654,655],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-audi-a8-d3-soft-close-trunk","tag-broken-trunk-latch-spring","tag-soft-close-trunk-latch","tag-soft-close-trunk-not-closing"],"views":3579,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5474,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/5474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}