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Hi the battery was just over three years old, parked on the flat on my local garage forecourt, filled it up with diesel, got my money out of the car, walked in and paid for the diesel, looked at the car, no one behind me so I went to the loo and when I came out the car had gone and rolled off into a wall, game over, it wasn't until I spoke to the insurance engineer that I discovered why it had done what it did and if you go on the net there are a good few others who have shared the same fate, in addition to this my wife swore I must have forgotten to put the parking brake on, so there we are putting the shopping in the back of her car when a 2014 A6 saloon rolled out of its space opposite all on its own and rammed the front of the car three spaces up from us, as the engineer said he has visited loads like this to asses damage and they know about the problem, when I bought my Passat sure enough its got an EFB battery which you can fit and code to any Audi. Steve.

Hi thats how I lost my car, the AGM batteries cause all sorts of problems, in my case the discs and pads were new and the battery decided to have a voltage drop and released the parking brake, according to the engineer we get loads of cars like yours and thats why anything post 2020 has an EFB battery they tend to not have these sort of problems, might be your battery h is not producing enough power to operate the release, wreathe pads free enough? Steve.

Hi I had all that with my A6 which uses the same sensor, so I bought a Febi sensor from a local part shop, if you go through my posting history on the A6 C7 part of the forum I did a full write up on it and it was the same sensor with the VAG logos ground off, if you have a problem finding it ask Gareth and he is red hot at pointing the way. Steve.

Hi £1600 is not a bad price if thats with the parts its a horrible job believe me I have watched it twice on my A6 and can honestly say if I had seen the video of the change I would never have bought the car, I bashed my credit card both times to get it done, unfortunately if you buy an Audi you join the owners club along with the exorbitant prices for parts, personally I am glad I am now out of ownership and have a VW Passat in which I have covered 17k since February without a murmur and the parts are about a third of the price, I.E. full clutch LUK £450 + £250 to fit, welcome to the real world, before £1600 for the parts + £600 to fit. Steve.

Hi could well be a glow plug problem but I would change the whole set, not worth playing chase the ace when the others start to fail, nearly all the diesels are post injection engines which rely heavily on glowplugs for starting and the start of DPF regeneration they come on to heat the extra fuel that burns off the ash in the DPF, Also one of the plugs is a knock sensor as well as a glowplug. Steve.

Hi I would personally wait until the light came on, it gives you 1500 miles warning, with regard to the brand of Adblue you wont get better than Halfords own brand, its made by a company called Yara who produce the most pure Adblue in Europe, finally I can thoroughly recommend the Forte additive as this stops it crystallising in the system and blocking it all. Steve.

Hi, thats a bit drastic, buy a new car because the old one has a dodgy clutch, have you looked at the prices of these things second hand, if you get a cheap one it will be cheap for many expensive reasons. Steve.

Hi Barry good idea with a new lense that could well net you at minimum half your cost back, thanks for the picture, by the looks of the rest of it most of that will mop out. Steve.

Hi not sure about that one, but if the module swap is straight forward in theory it should work, could you post a front picture of the headlight. Steve.

Hi, even if you have to pay to get it sent to the mainland there are a good few transmission specialist that would be capable of fixing it, google it and make a few phone calls, my friend got the brainwave of doing it himself after getting a quote from numerous garages that were eye watering, between four of us putting in the odd ten hour Sunday it took two months and that was an old A3 never mind the minuses on his bank statement. Steve.

Hi be aware that it will need to be coded to the car to work properly if it is full Matrix. Steve.

Hi it was another cheap way of lowering emissions along with a load of others, all endorsed by the Californian Air Resources Board who were the architects of OBD standardisation and everything new had to have fuel injection to even get a look in at being imported into the U.S. Steve.

Now your talking, five gauge steel floor that would take a hole cutting in it, brave man though you only got it wrong once. Steve.

Hi there is a process for resetting on YouTube, it might be a different model but the process is the same for most of them. Steve.

Hi where to begin, a manual conversion is both labour and parts mega consumption, you would have to love it more than the wife to go to that sort of expense, change the following, pedal box, brake master cylinder, new clutch and flywheel, centre console gear change mechanism with associated cables, new manual adapter plate to mount flywheel, the list is endless, much better idea get the old unit fixed or go for a recon unit. Steve.

Hi lovely clear picture, have you per chance shown it to the dealer along with a log of the frequency of the sign appearing. Steve.

Hi its probably the runners for the swirl flaps inside the manifold have seized in theory the flaps are a good idea as they help to cause vortex effect on the incoming air that aids combustion as well as reducing emissions, the big problem is all the cr@p from the EGR gets fed in to the manifold as well, this serves to gunge up the flaps and once stuck will terminate the potentiometer, so best practise is to get another manifold, or fit a delete kit to your existing manifold, either way it will have to come off the engine. Steve.

Hi Gareth thats the most hysterical description of these things I have ever heard, thanks for making my day, anything remotely solid going in a fuel tank sounds very steer clear, everybody else uses liquid additives. Steve.

Hi if you can post a picture that would help rather than trying to guess which one from a multitude of coolant pipes in that area. Steve.

Hi you can just replace the lens but its a bit of a faf, headlight out and getting the old lens and sealant off, plenty of how to do it on YouTube

Hi try Belkin I have a lot of their cables, they are not cheap but last forever. Steve.

Hi VCDS or the much cheaper option is OBD Eleven Pro, just make sure you buy the token bundle, this will allow you to do many other functions such as rear brakes and coding modules that fail as well as DTC information and DTC clearing, coding your battery is easy with that tool. Steve.

Hi if you attach another battery to the jump posts under the bonnet that will preserve the entertainment settings while you change the battery, you will need to buy a cheap pair of rubber gloves to wrap round the terminals once they have been taken off of the original battery to stop them shorting out. new battery must be coded to the car, otherwise as Gareth said it will kill the new battery in record time, Lion batteries are absolute garbage, I am not as polite as Gareth. Steve.

Hi the movement you feel is the travel for the self levelling part of the unit, I.E. when you start the car from cold and turn the lights on the light beam automatically dips and then comes back up to the lighting range module assigned position the only reason I mentioned another headlight is because just to inspect the shutter means a pretty radical strip down, also when you have done the dismantling you may find that there is mechanical breakage and spare parts for the units are rarer than rocking horse manure. Steve.

Hi Gareth, they dont use gaskets anymore just grey sealant cr@p and trust me it leaks, I had my one done twice the second time was with an upgraded racing sealant from Loctite at over £30 for a small tube that was just enough to do the job, the sump will be alloy and they dont normally give trouble unless they have had an impact. Steve.