Jim70

Hi mate, sorry your no further forward with your fault. Your battery should be in the boot under the spare wheel (for future reference) but I agree with Gareth, get it checked first as they're not cheap to replace and a good possibility it's not the battery that's causing the fault. I had a few lights come up on the dash recently and it turned out to be something completely different to what I would have thought. These modern day cars with all the electronics can be very difficult to fault find unless you know exactly what you're doing. The vcds lead/software can be very useful if you can get hold of one. Good luck and please keep us all updated on your progress, we all like to help each other if possible. Cheers

Hi Steve, the picture isn't great but it looks like the interior temperature sensor for the auto air con.

That's excellent mate, thanks a lot for that. That'll get me started and probably help my understanding of it a bit more too 🙂

Yeah I'll do that, cheers Steve 👍

Decided to buy myself a vcds kit and got it delivered during the week. I'm going to plug it into the car today and see what shows up. Does anyone know how to make changes to the car with this lead? just things like changing the DRL brightness and the dial sweep on start up etc. I've been on to Ross Tech website but doesn't really give you an instruction manual as such. Any help/advice would be appreciated.

I certainly would bother with the updates if it's just occasional use. Glad you didn't put it into the car as you never know what damage it might have done but we learn from our mistakes and we've all done it. Sorry to hear you were scammed and hopefully you'll get a refund from your credit card company. Good shout to put the names up, hopefully save someone else getting the same. Yeah, I'm just outside Glasgow. It's probably a company somewhere in India or something using a Glasgow address 😡

I've fitted swan neck detachable towbars to my previous cars (albeit not Audi's) and although no bumper cuts are normally required you may need to cut the undertray which is not visible. If you are buying one, just make sure it states No bumper cuts required.

Hi Howard, I'm not sure if you can buy an SD card from somewhere else with the updated version already loaded but I'd be wary of not getting a genuine Audi one. If you don't really need or use the sat nav that often then I'm sure the cost of an updated version won't be worth it. I have a 2014 car and the sat nav has never been updated and it works fine when I use it occasionally.

Yeah, I've just gone and purchased a vcds lead from Gendan/Ross Tech so I'll get a scan done as soon as it arrives 🙂

Thanks for your reply. I can hear the motor going when I pull the epb button but it's only holding the rear left when it's faulting. I had the rear right wheel off and disconnected the connection to the motor, cleaned and sprayed with contact cleaner but it still did it once after that but hasn't done it since and that's about a week now so I'll see how it goes.

Hi all, Looking for a bit of advice on the electronic park brake. My car has come up with a park brake fault 2 or 3 times now over the last couple of weeks. I don't know if it's the caliper sticking or an electrical fault and the light only comes on randomly after the car has been parked. The P symbol comes up within a red triangle on the dash with a line through it and also a message saying the auto-hold function not available. Also, the light on the park brake button on the console flashes red. It only does this for a short time and after stopping and starting a couple of times it seems to clear again and all works fine. When it faulted yesterday I stopped purposefully on an uphill and applied the park brake via the button as normal but the rear brakes seemed to only be holding the N/S/R wheel and not the O/S/R which makes me think it's more of a mechanical issue with the caliper of the O/S/R. Any advice would be much appreciated. James

Have you tried a stronger solution of screen wash? Since niedzial mentioned that I put in some stronger mix and it's never happened since 🙂. That's good you have it booked in, eventually. It's amazing what they can do when it suits them 😉 Yeah, let us know how you get on with it.

I can only assume that they pop out when the water freezes inside them as it expands and then go back in when the ice melts. I didn't attempt to push mine back in, just left them to go in on their own when the temp. came back up and I've not had any issues since putting in a stronger mix of screenwash.

Thanks for your reply, I didn't think about that 🙄 I have been using screen wash but now that you say that, I think I've probably not been using enough in it. Cheers

Happy New year all 😉 Hi guys, hope you all had a good Christmas/New year..... I've recently noticed when the outside temperature is pretty cold that the headlight washer jets stay popped out of the bumper, they do go back in once the temp. rises again. Just curious to see if anyone else has noticed this and if there's anything I need to do about it? Cheers Jim

Hi mate, yeah I was thinking a possible air lock too but not sure if or how that can happen on a sealed system 🤔. There didn't seem to be any loss of coolant and it's a light pink colour so I'm assuming that is ok. I only had the car about 10 days before the problem occurred and I'm assuming it had been sitting for a period of time before I got it. I drive the car on motorways and A roads at varying speeds/revs as normal. It's not happened again but if anything comes to light I'll be sure to let you all know. Thanks very much for all the help guys 👍👍

Hi Paul, sorry I missed your message, still trying to navigate this site. It took me long enough to put a new post up 🙈. Hopefully it has just been a glitch and it doesn't give me any problems as the car is great in every way 👍. It's only ever done it that one time while i was driving and the temp seemed to rise very quickly from cold. I'm thinking it may have been a wee air lock in the cooling system 🤔🤔. Yeah if it happens again I will get photos but fingers crossed it's all ok. Thanks mate and yeah I'll get a wee look at the forum rules once I find how to lol 👍

Hi Gareth, thanks for your reply. It's not got a temperature gauge as such. It's a series of little lights between the numbers 50----90----130 and it has a temperature light just next to this. The temperature normally sits around 90 in normal running but on that day after driving for around 10 mins the lights were up at 130 and the red temperature light came on and a message on the dash came up telling me to stop the car. It hasn't risen since and the little lights has only ever came on to the 90 mark. The dealer said it came from Crewe Audi and I've contacted them but they couldn't really tell me much. I've put a photo of the temperature indicator below. Cheers

Hi all, I've just joined the group and wonder if anyone can help. I recently bought a cracking 2014 A6 S line black edition 2.0l diesel ultra from Arnold Clark. The car has only just done 20k miles and is in immaculate condition. About 2 weeks ago the temperature light came on just after 10-15 mins driving and it came up on the dash to stop the car until it cooled. I didn't stop as I was on the motorway but let the car cruise about 60 mph. It cooled after about 15 mins and the light went off and it's never done it since. I've had the car back at Arnold Clark and they didn't find anything. Has anyone had any issues with overheating? I'm just concerned as I only have 3 months warranty with the car and don't want an expensive bill after the warranty has expired. Thanks in advance.