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Had this message appear on Friday night. Thankfully having read this tale, I knew exactly what to do - ordered one off ebay £14.99 it arrived today and was fitted tonight in less than 5 mins - great forum.

It is cam chain. No reason to replace unless you have rattle at start up. Regular oil and filter changes will help keep the engine in good condition, ideally around 8k miles. Ignore long life service regimes, that’s what kills engines. If for arguments sake it needed replacement chains, guides, sprockets and tensioners, it’s an engine out job. Check out VAG Technic on YouTube. On performance Audi RS and S models, they are constantly stripping them down due to premature fault with rocker arms and needle bearings. In terms of maintenance then pretty sure this is 218 is S Tronic 7-speed box. Needs gear oil and filter change every 40k miles. Fuel filter every 20k miles. Once you get to 100k miles, treat rear diff to a fluid change. Worth investing in VCDS even if you’re not spanner handy, as will pinpoint fault codes, and useful for things like coding battery, etc. Gave up on main dealers years ago due to ludicrous costs. Find a trusted garage that knows these cars inside out. It’s got air suspension which is pretty robust.

This is very much appreciated thank you Richard. Just so's that I am understanding you correctly, when you say:- It's ok Richard, I just googled before wasting the forums time, got ya fully understood now, much appreciated!

Bit of an update picked my car up from the dealer today, basically they’ve done a full inspection and while they did hear some rubbing while moving the car and while on the lift they’ve put it down to brake disc rust. The courtesy A1 they gave me with only 45 miles on it had a slight rubbing noise when braking at slow speed, which could be down to pad materials, but quieter than what I’m experiencing at the moment. Their conclusion is that the brakes are fine, and the noise should go away after more use. So, I suppose I need to play the game a bit longer and go back when it’s still a problem in a month or so. As a side note, definitely made the right choice with the A3, the A1 felt very basic in comparison with a similar spec level, but still a nice little car, if not a bit pricey.

Like you I'd suspect the switch.

Mine only does it on the motorway only, whilst it’s up when you slow down it bleeps with the rear spoiler fault. Then it stays up until you park up and shut the car off completely and only then you have to press the button to drop it down, it won’t go down automatically.

Here's my new car if all goes well on Thursday this week.....

Hi Everyone, a quick introduction here. In June I picked up a new A3 TFSI S Line Black Edition in Ascari blue. After a few minor quality issues I am now extremely happy with my purchase. Not going to bore everyone with the minute details but I had to deal with: 1. Loose number plate on the rear (Dealer fitted wrong clips) 2. Wrong puddle lights (no Audi rings) had to go back twice as they fitted exactly the same (incorrect lights) on the first visit 3. MMI software problems (settings not being saved) more on this in a separate post. We think we have solved the problem.

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This link might yield something useful, especially checking connectors. https://pmmonline.co.uk/technical/resolving-an-audi-a4s-adblue-warning-fault/ I don't know about the heater reference 'A'. I've checked the A5 B9 erWIN manual and the only reference I can find to a heater is in the supply line for the V437 pump. Might be helpful to post the full scan, if you have it.