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Thanks for Everyone who’s posted on this topic, Same issue apart from my car is used every day. I ended up buying one from an Audi dealer £100. As I had a week of long journeys, poss could have risked it and waiting for the e-bay delivery but I’ll never know. Anyway in my head I’ve still saved £150 fitting it myself instead of thinking of the £80 difference of the same part. I still ordered one from eBay and now I’ve a cheap spare. Thanks again for the advise I can’t imagine there are too many sensors on a modern car you can get to so easily 😊😊👍

Hi thank you for the quick responses I'll go and check the sites and get some ordered enjoy the rest of your weekend

Here is a link straight to the Q5 option: https://www.puddlelights.co.uk/product/audi-q5-puddle-lights/ Edit: it looks like they used a potato to take the picture but they're actually pretty crisp in appearance irl.

Hi Spartacus 68/Richard, Thanks for reply and the "price range" estimate. It's not a question of "walk away". I'm not buying this car (my passion is a large V12 Series 3 Jaguar Sovereign). I'm trying to help my friend whose plans have been changed due to illness. Having been smitten by the car his mistake was not to be more thorough in collecting all the history from the selling garage. Regards Peter

Bumper off, antenna fitted and bumper back on I’d say 1.5hrs max, calibration 30mins. What Audi charge I could only guess

Dealer or private sale Will? If the latter, my angle on any private sale is don’t get interested in purchasing any vehicle from anyone, unless it has a V5 registered to the owner at the address you are viewing it at. Length of ownership would also be important to me. It could end in tears. Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello Gary, So the filler pump nozzle cuts out (consistently?) when trying to put fuel into the tank - correct? Does it do this even when you try to trickle the fuel in by barely opening the nozzle lever? If these are the issues you are getting, it could be a faulty/collapsed beather pipe, or perhaps the filler flap isn’t opening sufficiently when you insert the nozzle. Kind regards, Gareth.

Ideally you need to get the car scanned with VCDS. There might be other codes logged that can help pinpoint what’s going on. My experience of turbos, 2012 A4 Allroad with under 70k miles went into limp mode. Ordinarily I would have stripped it down myself, but pointless cleaning, given labour to get to it. The exhaust manifold nuts can be a sod without induction heater. In addition the oil feed pipe to it needs to be replaced as the union nut rarely goes back on properly, and this is usually down the back of the engine. Bypass this and you risk an oil leak. There’s also an actuator on there. This is normally set up with the turbo on the bench. It can be tested with a vacuum. Any cleaners likely to be short lived. When I stripped the turbo down on mine it had carbon build up. Also one of the vanes on the turbine was bent. Normal to do oil and filter change as a matter of course when fitting. Check out Turbo-diesel.co.uk. They will have Garrett turbos, BorgWarner, new in a box, or you could opt for refurbished. Main dealer will use exactly the same part but boxed Audi and daft price. You’ll also need exhaust gasket kit.

Well at least that answers the software question. Hopefully it's the easily accessible ones that they've mentioned. Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me and all manufacturers are like this other than Toyota, lexus and honda. The German, french, Italian brands plus ford and vauxhall have cottoned on to the fact they can earn more money from parts than the vehicles themselves.