Audi Q6-Etron

Car is 20 months old so not exactly soon after build.

Thank you.

Sorry to read your past issue. I assume you never had the issue again after the part was changed?

Maybe but the Audi tech man said most times this resolves the issues without any further issues so fingers crossed.

So progress has been made thanks to a friend of a friend who knows an ex Audi Master Technician. It appears the issues are well known. He got me to remove the battery negatives , leave the car 30 minutes, reconnect and try again. Did this and now the car is working perfectly, it charges, reports correct battery levels, all back to how it was before it went to the Audi dealership. He called it the Control Alt Delete fix. So for now I have a working charging system.

So part arrived quicker then the dealer planned, car has been dropped back and now have new issues that were not there before the car went wrong. New issues: Car is not recognised on the Octopus Go app and will not charge on the Hypervolt, did not have this issue before, have deleted the car from Octopus and re-setup the car and it still says no car plugged in. My profile has gone, could not add me so had to delete my profile from the car, app and and online and re-do, car now sees my profile. App is reporting incorrect battery levels of the car, this was also doing this before the delete and re-install but still does not show the right battery level, the app is talking to the car as I can open and close does, sound horn etc from the app but the battery level is wrong. Drivers side door central locking not always opening. I also tried plugging the car into a RolecEV charger in a car park and that reports no car connected. Anyone got any thoughts as it looks like the car is going back to the dealer?

Audi dealer called to say control unit turned up quicker then expected, asked them if they had any idea on why the unit failed and they do not and could not guarantee it would not happen again. I asked them to ask Audi if the fault happened again at 70 mph and we crashed due to the same fault affecting the steering control unit, steering and other driving features, would the interior safety features still work as designed as one of the reported faults was the proactive occupant protection showed a fault and said currently restricted, when I Iooked this up this is what I got, The "Proactive Occupant Protection: currently restricted" message on your Audi means the vehicle's pre-crash safety systems (like seatbelt tensioners, window closers, and airbag modules) have detected a fault and disabled themselves. This typically disables related features like Audi pre sense. Does not read safe to drive to me and in an event of an accident the driver and passengers would have zero protection. Awaiting to hear from the dealer and Audi. As I share this car with my wife she does not feel safe to drive the car and feels the car is unsafe to drive and also she is worried if it failed on her what would happen. Lets see what Audi and the dealer comes back with.

Well heard from Audi. The steering control module has blown and needs to be replaced, on a two week back order. This control unit controls other units and sensors and why it throw up so many errors. The question now is why did it blow?

This is the full EV version. I think the problem is Audi want to charge more for poor quality cars, the older cars quality was so much better, now bean counters get involved and want more money but quality suffers, to me Audi used to be seen in the past as a premium branded car and the higher end in the group, now Skoda has better build and reliability in the group, the once looked down on Skoda brand can now look down on Audi.

This is the full EV version.

Have to agree Steve, thank you for the heads up on the Toyota. Been told I have a Ford Explorer on it's way to me.

No being told the collection that was at 9.10 and then moved to 2 pm has been moved to 4 pm. So only 7 hours late. Audi breakdown assist who are only the AA which is not an issue in itself but when the slip up and say AA and not Audi Assist, would have more respect for Audi if they just said our breakdown cover is provided by the AA and not it is provided by Audi specialists. The person then said an Audi tech was coming out before 6 pm, even though someone had been out and I had to then explain that breakdown was meant to be with me and they had no clue what was going on, I said is it not all loaded on their system and the person had no idea and could not answer, shocking.

Also meant to be recovering the car by now and no one has turned up, imagine being broken down in the middle of no where in this heat expecting recovery.

Nope, I no doubt will not be the last as you say but if my posts stops someone else from being caught out with a pile of Audi junk then this is one extra person helped to remove from the brand.

Got to love Audi, the Audi Mobility people called and said there is no SUV available in my area and said they would have to get Enterprise to call me, Enterprise called and due to half term they have no suitable car in the area and are phoning around to try to find a car. Looks like Audi need to not only sort out their reliability issues if all their cars are not availabile. Now waiting to see if I will even have a suitable car.