Help please: electrical steering column noise

[Buckle]

Hi all.
My 2013 A6 C7 BiTDI has developed a weird noise coming from the steering column. The noise sounds electrical?
Steering works fine. The noise seems to happen during slow steering movement.

Having a good google i cant see solution to this problem. Vcds detects no errors as yet!
The noise is similar to this video on YouTube.
Audi A6 steering wheel noise - YouTube

any advice could be much appreciated 😃

[Whippy53]

Slip rings?

[Buckle]

Hi, thanks for your response. you are the second person which has proposed this....the slipring is something i don’t know much about however I will give it some research. Toying with dismantling the steering wheel this wkd and investigate further. Much appreciate your feedback. Interested to hear if anyone else has experienced this problem

[MFGF]

Hi, thanks for your response. you are the second person which has proposed this....the slipring is something i don’t know much about however I will give it some research. Toying with dismantling the steering wheel this wkd and investigate further. Much appreciate your feedback. Interested to hear if anyone else has experienced this problem

It might be the slip ring, but it sounded a little more squeaky when it happened in my old A6 C6 - more like this:

Audi A6 weird steering wheel noise - YouTube

I haven't heard of this in a C7 before though...

[Buckle]

Hi,

ironically all the buttons on my steering wheel work. I will plug the car tonight to see if any new fault codes have appeared since i did a scan the other day. Hopefully a defective slipring will have a fault code

[Whippy53]

Solved How to cure whining noise from steering wheel slip ring?

[MFGF]

Hi,

ironically all the buttons on my steering wheel work. I will plug the car tonight to see if any new fault codes have appeared since i did a scan the other day. Hopefully a defective slipring will have a fault code

In my case there were no faults - it was just the slip ring that was noisy (but it was functioning perfectly). It got louder in hot weather, if memory serves.

Cheers!

MF.

[nick1212]

I had something similar in hot weather. Adjusted the steering to a lower position and the noise disappeared.

[Buckle]

Hi all.
The misses drove the car on Sunday. The steering column was adjusted. Annoying the issue has gone away (For now).

I imagine the assembly needs a bit of grease. Thanks for everyone’s comments.