Hey dude. Your quick little fix is totally making my A8's sunroof quiet and saving me a headache till I get that guy either swapped out or fixed. Thanks bud.
For anybody coming to this video years later Same issue happens on the D4 cars too The real issue is that the gear on the end of the shaft works it’s way loose over time You pull the motor out, make sure it hasn’t damaged the deflector side Then push the gear on the end of the motor in our out to wherever it needs to be Would very strongly recommend living the blasting gears while you’re there
Not really, I did it ages ago by basing off of parts diagrams I can walk you through it as its pretty easy 1. Pop sunroof deflector up, you can just grab it and pull up and out of the way, heaps of pics online for that" 2. Unscrew the 4 bolts holding the overhead controls in, 2 are in the sunglasses thingo 3. undo the bolts holding the deflector motor which you should have full access to now through where the overhead controls used to be 4. once the motor is out, this part was a little fidgety, you'll see the little gear on the end would have slid off the shaft partially, so just push it further onto the shaft 5. grease the contact points for the gear 6. then put back together enough to drive around at 20-30km/h and see and hear the motor move slowly
if you have VCDS or ODIS you can run the motor without needing to drive the car btw! DIdn't even know it had an electric sunroof deflector until it started grinding, definitely over engineering at its finest ;)
Thanks for the help. My wind deflector started making the same sound. I was at local Audi store and I asked a Sr. Tech for suggestions; his was unplug the motor to reset it and replace the plug and see if that works. I tried it, of course it didn’t work. There’s another reason not to trust the “Stealer” for advice.
thanks for the video upload.... to fix mine I used a folded piece of cardboard and put it between the motor and roof. it was able to angle the motor enough to make it whisper quite like new.... tey pulling g down on the motor with your hands and you will see what I mean...
Thank you Sir, I have same problem its so annoying that Fing Noise!! so u can just disconnect the motor a no problem the sunroof will still work ? Thank you!!
The sunroof does seem to close slower, which makes me think the primary motor is working harder, but I don't use the sunroof enough to be all that concerned about it. At some point, I will probably break down and replace the wind deflector motor, but it's expensive and not that high a priority for me. Anyway, hope that helps.
So unplugging the motor it doesn't effect the use of the sunroof. . do I need to have it plug in at some point? Or can I just not use the motor at all. .
ROSEFARM SOUND I still have not gotten around to replacing it. I did, however, attempt the shimming trick that others have suggested, but had absolutely zero success in eliminating or even reducing the noise. So, I have just been using the sunroof without it.
Any new video on how to address the noise?we own 2 A8 and one went to the dealer and after $300 deductible and $2975.00 from the warranty company my is working with no noise but now I am afraid of our other car to go bad since it is not covered by any warranty! At any rate, anyone going to the dealer. Think twice
Lupe Castillo Sorry that your having to go through this too. Unfortunately, I still have not gotten around to replacing the wind deflector motor. I did, however, attempt the shimming trick that others have suggested, but had absolutely zero success in eliminating or even reducing the noise. So, I have just been using the sunroof without it. Sorry.
Thanks for great video.I have that noise and I couldn't use my sun roof witch I love to keep open.You saved me lots of money for simple repair
Hey dude. Your quick little fix is totally making my A8's sunroof quiet and saving me a headache till I get that guy either swapped out or fixed. Thanks bud.
It helped me too, its quiet now! :)
Just disconnected the deflector motor. With assistance from your video as well as one other, took five minutes total. Thank you!
hi, how did you disconnect it? just cut the wires? or pull them?
@lemmensjean8670 pulled them, from what I recall they are clips, just had to figure out the best way to disconnect
For anybody coming to this video years later
Same issue happens on the D4 cars too
The real issue is that the gear on the end of the shaft works it’s way loose over time
You pull the motor out, make sure it hasn’t damaged the deflector side
Then push the gear on the end of the motor in our out to wherever it needs to be
Would very strongly recommend living the blasting gears while you’re there
Is there a video or a forum for this? Its hard to work on it, for me, without video or images.
Not really, I did it ages ago by basing off of parts diagrams
I can walk you through it as its pretty easy
1. Pop sunroof deflector up, you can just grab it and pull up and out of the way, heaps of pics online for that"
2. Unscrew the 4 bolts holding the overhead controls in, 2 are in the sunglasses thingo
3. undo the bolts holding the deflector motor which you should have full access to now through where the overhead controls used to be
4. once the motor is out, this part was a little fidgety, you'll see the little gear on the end would have slid off the shaft partially, so just push it further onto the shaft
5. grease the contact points for the gear
6. then put back together enough to drive around at 20-30km/h and see and hear the motor move slowly
@@lawrencemercieca okay thanks! This helps. I saw other videos on UA-cam and yes, now I get it lol
if you have VCDS or ODIS you can run the motor without needing to drive the car btw! DIdn't even know it had an electric sunroof deflector until it started grinding, definitely over engineering at its finest ;)
Thanks for the help. My wind deflector started making the same sound. I was at local Audi store and I asked a Sr. Tech for suggestions; his was unplug the motor to reset it and replace the plug and see if that works. I tried it, of course it didn’t work. There’s another reason not to trust the “Stealer” for advice.
Thank You for posting . about to tackle the same problem.
thanks for the video upload.... to fix mine I used a folded piece of cardboard and put it between the motor and roof. it was able to angle the motor enough to make it whisper quite like new.... tey pulling g down on the motor with your hands and you will see what I mean...
+Par S Thanks for the tip. I will give that a shot.
Thank you for this video!!!!
Thank you Sir, I have same problem its so annoying that Fing Noise!! so u can just disconnect the motor a no problem the sunroof will still work ? Thank you!!
The sunroof does seem to close slower, which makes me think the primary motor is working harder, but I don't use the sunroof enough to be all that concerned about it. At some point, I will probably break down and replace the wind deflector motor, but it's expensive and not that high a priority for me. Anyway, hope that helps.
My sunroof doesn't do anything at all no open no tilt nothing. Can you manually open it my sunroof drain is clogged
So unplugging the motor it doesn't effect the use of the sunroof. .
do I need to have it plug in at some point? Or can I just not use the motor at all. .
were there any error messages after the plug was disconnected?
Not visible to the driver. I do not have a vagcom to know if it is returning any errors or not.
Did you replace the motor or it just stayed unplugged?
ROSEFARM SOUND I still have not gotten around to replacing it. I did, however, attempt the shimming trick that others have suggested, but had absolutely zero success in eliminating or even reducing the noise. So, I have just been using the sunroof without it.
Bangledorf okay, thanks, im going to do it too, i have the same noise problem...
what happens when the connector is switched off
I have a 07 a8 and it was rain and it got in car and motor don't work at all
Any new video on how to address the noise?we own 2 A8 and one went to the dealer and after $300 deductible and $2975.00 from the warranty company my is working with no noise but now I am afraid of our other car to go bad since it is not covered by any warranty! At any rate, anyone going to the dealer. Think twice
Lupe Castillo Sorry that your having to go through this too. Unfortunately, I still have not gotten around to replacing the wind deflector motor. I did, however, attempt the shimming trick that others have suggested, but had absolutely zero success in eliminating or even reducing the noise. So, I have just been using the sunroof without it. Sorry.
After Removing the Reflector motor connector, Will my sunroof open or it will also be disabled?