Q7 Newbie

[Whittonstall-Si]

Hi all,

I'm new to the forum and relatively new to Audi ownership.  August 23 I decided to get myself a 2012 Q7 S-line.  It's a lovely car and amazing for the family.........the small amount I've been able to drive it.  About 1 month after buying the car we were taking a family holiday round the Lock Ness area and on the last day of the holiday the car decided to spit out injector 1 on bank 1.  Maybe it was in protest of having to carry 6 people, 3 dogs and luggage, but the car had been flawless up to this point.

I sent the car into my local independent Audi specialist, as I was a bit worried about the complexity of the job.  Whist in for repair, the garage discovered a number of other issues that needed sorting with the car.  It took two goes for the garage to fix the injector fault (I got the car back and a couple of weeks later the exact same injector decided to leap from the engine), and there was a lot of delays, but I eventually got the car back in July this year.  Unfortunately in that time the car had runout of MOT and it failed on rear brake performance.  Understandably the brakes were seized up, but I've stripped them down and have new shoes, discs, pads, and some refurbished calipers on order which should cure the problem.  Last thing I need to solve after this is the key not releasing from the ignition barrel (I have to use the little release pin with a screwdriver to get the key out).  There are no fault codes so I'm thinking this is probably related to gear position switch, or park position switch. Any advise would be welcome.

All this has come at about a £5k cost so I am feeling a bit sorry for myself, but....... The car is a lovely car and hopefully I am over the big troubles.

Interested to hear you opinions on this gen of Q7

[Steve Q]

Welcome to the forum you'll find the members on here are a friendly and helpful bunch 🙂 looks a lovely car. And Scotland is beautiful. I did the nc500 4 years ago and loved it. Sorry to hear you've had problems.