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Look after yourself, collisions are traumatic on a number of levels and the psychological effects are often overlooked compared to the physical. Hope you are feeling better soon and get a long run of no motoring issues or incidents at all, you’re certainly due that!

Just shaken up a bit. I don't know if I was lucky that it wasn't the Audi!

It’s ridiculous on so many levels- safety being the first. I got told that they don’t look into forums like this, but the person on the phone did sound intrigued when I was telling him of all the other Audi models around the country and which branches were potentially dealing with the SAME issue. Even then, they stuck to their guns. i still can’t believe what you’re car has gone through- I’d be claiming the CR Act to them and getting a different car altogether.

So sorry to hear this has happened. It makes me so angry on your behalf as I know how it feels. I have an email from Bristol Audi telling me the warranty is only on Q7s (this is a lie it’s on more models but it would help you I hope). Would you like a copy @RKaur @DADSQ7? @RSW I am off work from Wednesday so will make it a priority to email. If you want to message me your email address I can cc you in. I will also contact DVSA thank you for passing on info previously. Are you happy for me to mention you in my correspondence with them so hopefully they make links? I’ve taken my car to Bath now but haven’t heard back from Audi UK or Bristol yet. Intrigued to know how they’re going to rationalise 3 alternators failing on my 3.5yr old A3 with the latter only lasting a month before packing in. I’ll also be asking them for info on how many other A3s have this problem (I doubt they’ll give it to me but I’ll be trying to fight to get this model added to the 7 yr warranty list). It won’t help me but may help others in the future. I will also be asking for Andrew Doyle’s contact details to complain to him although I don’t hold out much hope.

Thank you for this suggestion. I will research it.

Hi for all you folks out there with Adblue tank problems mainly caused by crystals in the system, level sensors and delivery pipes, had a good long look at this product and what it does and its been very successful when used on lorries and is now available for cars, adding approx £11-14 on to your adblue fill its still cheaper than a new system that you can only get from Audi. Steve.

Had this issue. Filled the tank to the brim, then immediately had 650mi until no start…the day before I had to make a 640mi round trip up north. The last 20mi home was squeaky bum time I can tell you. In the end, I’ve had a guy “map out” the “no restart” function from the main ECU. Gets rid of the panic over no restart, just leaves the fault in place. Not bothering to have it fixed as the car is fine with the fault in place. Will wait for Audi to issue a recall to fix the, clearly common, fault. I’m guessing I’ve got more chance of !Removed! from a rocking horse than a recall, but let’s see! If anyone’s interested, the guy is Andy at https://ecuflash.co

I have sent my email to Which following the instructions provided. I have also written to a journalist for one of the Sunday papers who successfully resolved a previous issue of mine. I'm still waiting for some kind of update from the DVSA and have no idea how long that is likely to take. In other news the car I bought as a runaround while my Audi was in for repair was written off on Friday by a Balfour Beatty van driver. I've only had it two months. The costs of my original breakdown are just spiralling out of control.