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It’s very common. There’s a green rubber seal that sits on the inner part of the pipe. You can buy it from Audi for about £10 and isn’t hard to swap just have a look at the pipe as you take it off as it has a seat that it needs to meet up to and give it a clean with a cloth before fitting the new seal and putting back together.

The Buzzer itself is part of the cluster. if its the buzzer then its (unless you are a master craftsman with it comes to soldering) a replacement cluster thats needed. Completely cost prohibitive in my opinion. As for testing for errors, yes you can throw VCDS on the car, but i dont remember ever getting an error on the computer for this problem (ive had 2 different cars that suffered with the same thing... an A4 and an A3). What i might suggest before you go ripping into the dash to look at the rear of the cluster, is checking other connections around the dash. particularly around the light switch or the indicator stalk.

What's the point? Unless you solve the root cause of the problem it is likely to keep throwing up other faults and error messages.

Sorry to read you have been sold a lemon Simon. It would have been better to return the car to the dealer as soon as the first injector failed, but it is too late for that now. I hope your luck improves. Have you tried wriggling the steering wheel to release the key? Is the gear stick in Park position, assuming it is automatic transmission?

Glad it's all motd 🙂 that's the thing with Audi's, no matter how old they get the maintenance bills remain expensive. I could be wrong but as the garage has supposedly fixed the fault then there should be some guarantee on the work or parts replaced. I'd be speaking to them asap. Obviously there's a chance it's not the ignition barrel as you've suspected but definitely worth a shot. Haynes don't really do any recent cars. Might be worth trying Bentley manuals. They're not cheap and it might be geared more to American versions (engines etc) but the ignition system should be the same even if it's on the opposite side.