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The latest on water in the boot cavity. I have found that you can buy a gasket to attach to the edge of the boot lid, see photo. I purchased it from the local Audi dealer for £21.88. and fitted it in about 15 minutes. Making sure that the paint surface was cleaned and dried using white spirit. The part number is 4G5827321 Gasket. I also purchased two Bumpers 4H0827589B which I thought I might need. Only 59p each but found that the gasket already comes with its own. The gasket arrived broken in two which helped when fitting the gasket to the boot lid. Not sure how hard it would be to fit the gasket in one long section. A warning if you decide to fit this gasket, once the adhesive strip touches the bodywork, it sticks, fast and very strong. And you will have trouble moving it. I did this fitting by myself, but it may be wise to get someone to help. Anyway, after all that I am now waiting for a good downpour to see it works. Will post an update ASAP. (I wonder if this is an upgrade fitted to later A6’s) Regards Ian

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Hi get it scanned and it will tell you the cause of the faults, if they are low voltage faults it could just be a duff battery. Steve.

I had it it checked by a non-franchised specialist. It’s fine. he said if/when I can hear a rattle on every start (there’s none at present), then spend some money. apprently the tensioner is very sensitive to oil level. Mine was half way up the (software monitor) indicator between max & min. Topped up and no sign or sound of any rattle under any condition. (Start, hard acceleration etc). quote was for £2,300, which seems fairly good value as the online ‘garage job guide’ software said £2,700 for labour alone! so no further action apart from back to standard weekly oil checks.

Hi, I have had my A3 40 TFSI e for about 6 months now and have just done my first long distance run (200 miles each way) with no easy access to recharge while away, so I ran the car in Battery Save Mode most of the time - still uses the battery for initial pulling away but then switches to the petrol engine and stays in petrol mode for most of the time - I only switched to electric mode when in the town centre. So all of the motorway running was just using the petrol engine. I found the drive very good with no concerns about the performance - only niggle is the tyre roar especially on some of our crappy concrete motorway surfaces! A few other comments on using the different modes... Day to day, I leave it in pure electric mode for all local journeys (up 30 miles total). For slightly longer days out etc (up to say 100 miles total) I switch to hybrid and then for the longer runs use the battery save mode, perhaps switching to hybrid on the way home to use up any remaining battery. All works very well and the switching between electric and petrol is totally seamless and you often don't know which is being used, unless you look at the dashboard! I had been running most of the time in the Dynamic setting (rarely have I also used the Sport mode on the gearbox as that does make the petrol engine a bit thrashy) but for the longer trip I have been using the Comfort setting and I'm tempted to leave it in that now. I also purchased the Adaptive Cruise Control via FOD. This worked very well on the long journey, but I would suggest using it in the Comfort setting - in the Dynamic setting it will get you back to the set speed as quickly as possible when you signal and pull out to overtake, which on a busy motorway I found too aggressive at times. BTW, in the battery save mode over the longer distance, it quoted about 55 mpg. Anyhow, those are my thoughts and overall I am very happy with the car, having come from a nearly new BMW 420i.

Just an update. One of the garages who were looking to do the work ha e informed me that getting internal parts are proving hard to source. I believe this to be true and not being fobbed off as the garage is run by the son of a good colleague of mine. So I may have to look at a totally different engine after all.

Yeah say it will need chain and tensioner going from my experience. Mines cost considerably more than £3K 🙈 Hope you get sorted - at least peace of mind