Steve Q

It could be the window regulator has got stuck.

Nice one! Me too! There's 3 of us so far for this one.

It's definitely the best show ☺️

On the 8L model the lateral acceleration sensor is located under the steering column to the left of it, its held in a gold bracket, cant miss it, the sensor is put in facing left to right(there is arrows to show its configuration) hence lateral. the longitudinal is located behind the glovebox, held in the same bracket, again cant miss this one as there isnt much else. this is configured front to back, hence longitudinal. the two sensors are used so that the abs knows how much brake and where to apply it based on your speed and direction. which would explain esp and abs lights coming on. You might find the locations are similar on the 8p. hope this helps.

Your next point of call in is a diagnostic check.

Or throttle related as when you accelerate up hill.

Club display booked. Who's going?

Who's interested in going to this? Jack & I did runs down the drag strip last year which was great fun!

Right I've emailed the event organisers to get a club display. Who else is going?.

Yep main dealer can supply you with the key.

My advice would be to use ebay. I managed to buy a full kit for my wife's jag for not silly money. Besides the wheel you'll need the clamp/screw that attached ties the wheel down. You should already have a jack.

For the third time after 2016 and 2019, an Audi customer team has won the traditional opener of the endurance season in Dubai. Team WRT from Belgium, which claimed its first success six years ago, celebrated a convincing one-two. Mohammed Saud Fahad Al Saud/Axcil Jefferies/Christopher Mies/Dries Vanthoor/Thomas Neubauer won ahead of their teammates Benjamin Goethe/Arnold Robin/Maxime Robin/Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer/Frédéric Vervisch. For the GT3 version of the Audi R8 LMS, this was already the fifteenth overall victory in a 24-hour race worldwide since the start of the program in 2009. After first and third place in our customers’ first victory six years ago and first and second place in 2019, we can now be pleased about another one-two victory by our customers,” said Chris Reinke, Head of Audi Sport customer racing. “Congratulations to WRT Team Principal Vincent Vosse and his drivers. We also extend our thanks and congratulations to PK Carsport, Car Collection Motorsport and AC Motorsport, who completed a perfect weekend with their podium finishes.” Team WRT dominated the season opener of the 24H Series. Starting from pole position, the winning No. 7 MS7 by WRT car led the endurance race for 301 laps. The number 31 followed its sister car like a shadow, posting 210 lead laps itself and crossing the finish line just one lap behind. Another two laps behind followed the next rival. Another Audi customer team, Attempto Racing, crossed the finish line in seventh place. Arkin Aka’s team from Hanover, Germany, managed the top ten result with a particularly young driver line-up: Alex Aka/Luca Engstler/Finlay Hutchison/Nicolas Schöll/Florian Scholze. The GT3 version of the Audi R8 LMS not only scored successes in the overall standings. The number 34 car from Car Collection Motorsport still recorded third place in the Am classification although contact with an opponent had necessitated the replacement of a track rod on the rear axle. The Gentlemen drivers Gustav Edelhoff/Elmar Grimm/Dr. Johannes Kirchhoff/Ingo Vogler, loyal customers of Peter Schmidt’s team and the Audi brand for many years, shared the cockpit with youngster Max Edelhoff. The podium success also meant a particularly emotional farewell: For Gustav Edelhoff – who was already an Audi customer in rallying in the 1980s – it was the last 24-hour race in Dubai. Saintéloc Racing finished sixth in the Am classification, a second R8 LMS from Car Collection Motorsport eighth. Team PK Carsport managed a convincing performance in the GTX class. Anthony Kumpen’s Belgian squad – runner-up in last year’s GT2 European Series with Peter Guelinckx/Bert Longin – was the first team worldwide to contest an endurance race with the Audi R8 LMS GT2. Guelinckx, Longin and their teammates Stienes Longin and Stijn Lowette took the lead in their class on lap 140 with Audi Sport customer racing’s most powerful model. After 24 hours of racing they had established a 25-lap lead over the second-placed Lamborghini. In the TCR class, Audi customer teams once again fought for the best positions. AC Motorsport, TCR winner in Dubai two years ago and TCR runner-up in the 24H Series last year, finished second with the first-generation Audi RS 3 LMS. At the wheel were Miklas Born, Mathieu Detry, Yannick Mettler and regular driver Stéphane Perrin. Only a detached shock absorber mounting on the rear axle deprived the team, which was temporarily in the lead, of the chance to repeat its success of 2020. The second-generation touring car made its 24-hour debut for the Autorama Motorsport by Wolf-Power Racing team. Rob Huff/Marcus Menden/Marlon Menden/Peter Posavac had started from pole position and led the race at times. After two-thirds of the race distance, however, a broken clutch input shaft required a time-consuming replacement. The Swiss team was not discouraged by this, returning to action after two and a half hours of repairs and still achieving sixth place. The only Audi R8 LMS GT4 did not finish the popular event for club racers. Team Heide-Motorsport decided to retire after an accident on lap 387. https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/12-victory-for-audi-customer-team-wrt-at-the-dubai-24-hours-14470

Every year, the Top Employers Institute honors the most attractive employers in over 120 countries. For the second time in a row, AUDI AG is among the companies selected in Germany. That means that Audi is now officially a “Top Employer Germany 2022.” Audi did particularly well in the fields of Digital HR and Diversity & Inclusion. Along with AUDI AG, the subsidiaries Audi Brussels, Audi México, Bentley, Ducati, Italdesign, and Lamborghini were also honored as “Top Employers 2022” in the countries of the respective company headquarters. New impetus for future HR understanding With a Top Employers Score of 82 percent and good to very good results in every assessment category, AUDI AG clearly exceeds the required 60 percent minimum for certification as a Top Employer. With that, the company with the four rings came off even better this year than last. “This award for our HR organization is highly valued. For us, it confirms that we are on the right path with our HR transformation. That is how we at Audi are creating the best working conditions for our employees and will score points with top talent in the future as well,” Audi Member of the Board of Management for Human Resources Sabine Maassen points out. This certification is more than an award. Its findings are an important impetus for Audi to continue developing its understanding of HR. As such, those findings are contributing to future employer attractiveness. Staffing organization even better this year Audi received a particularly high rating in the field of Digital HR. For example, an internal HR digitization strategy is creating the framework for all digital HR matters, like an HR app for employees that already has more than 40,000 users. According to the Institute, Audi’s understanding of Diversity & Inclusion, which the company’s in-house diversity department and others have effectively supported for several years through various initiatives, creates attractive working conditions. Additionally, Audi’s HR organization gained points in the Engagement category. Employees have the opportunity to give feedback and thereby actively participate, for instance in optimizing processes. With the help of regular employee surveys, Audi is elevating its employees’ satisfaction with the HR division’s offerings. Moreover, the new employer brand identity ‘We are progress’ shows that the employees at Audi are also actively helping to shape the transformation,” says Florian Husmann, who works in the HR Strategy department and is also Audi’s Top Employer certification coordinator. He says that the campaign had a positive effect on the evaluation – and was the reason why Audi was able to elevate its assessment over the previous year. Companies’ attractiveness as employers is certified based on uniform standards that are updated annually – best practices that cover the entire HR organization and adjacent departments. Before the Top Employers Institute chooses companies, they are audited with the help of about 350 requirements. https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/audi-is-again-a-top-employer-in-2022-14475

McLaren insists it is happy to sit and wait for Audi to make a decision over its Formula 1 future before evaluating a potential tie-up. The Woking-based team has been linked as a contender to join up with Audi if the Volkswagen Group-owned company enters grand prix racing when new engine rules come in from 2026. It has held exploratory talks with the German manufacturer but it suggests that the ball is now in VW’s court about what happens next. It is understood that VW is considering two options for an F1 assault: an Audi push with McLaren or using its Porsche brand with Red Bull. Speaking at a media event at McLaren’s Woking factory, Brown cheekily suggested that the Red Bull option appeared to be moving forward while the Audi situation remained unclear. “I'm hearing they're going to do something with Red Bull on the Porsche front,” said Brown. “I think they've spoken with a handful of people on the grid and, as you would imagine, we have conversations. “But in the short term, and medium term, we're very happy where we are [with Mercedes]. So we're going to just wait and see: are they going to enter the sport? Because I think that's not been definitively decided. “If they do, we have a contract through this term. And naturally, we're going to evaluate where we are and who's in the sport, and then take a decision on what we're going to do in 2026 in due course.” McLaren switched to Mercedes engines last season as part of a long-term deal, and will stick with the German manufacturer until the end of the current rules cycle. While it has long been questioned about whether or not a customer team can win a world championship, Brown is convinced about the possibilities. I think we can win with a Mercedes engine,” he said. “I know for a long time there's been this view you can't win with a customer engine. I think you can and we're very confident that our Mercedes power unit is identical to theirs. We've not seen anything to say otherwise. You are at a little bit of a disadvantage from an overall design concept, because they understandably get a view of what the architecture looks like. So there is a detriment to being a customer team. But it's not the power unit itself. It's the knowledge that you get by kind of having a first look [at the engine design].” https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.autosport.com/f1/news/mclaren-happy-to-wait-over-audi-f1-future-decision/7413137/amp/

2025 will be the year when Audi is going to launch its final new model powered by a combustion engine. The next A4 will be arriving before that, effectively meaning the B10-generation model will serve as the swan song for TFSIs and TDIs. Given the typical life cycle of around seven years, it means you still have until around 2030 to get the midsize luxury car with cylinders and pistons. The revamped A4 is expected to debut towards the end of the year or early 2023, and in the meantime, it's been spotted testing in snowy northern Europe. We are pleasantly surprised to see the car has a smaller singleframe grille attached to what looks like the full production body. The disguise could be playing tricks on us but the front fascia appears to have a cleaner design. For example, the vertical air curtains in the front bumper are quite thin and the fog lights have likely been integrated into the main clusters. Speaking of which, the sleek headlights are the production ones and already show different LED graphics than the current A4's. Those basic taillights are certainly not the final ones. A small, rectangular cutout in the tailgate's camouflage reveals where the reverse lights are positioned and also gives away the true width of the rear lights. There seem to be horizontal lines between the taillights, suggesting the new A4 will have an LED light bar or at least a wide trim piece. The dual exhaust setup hints at a potent powertrain for what appears to be a larger vehicle. Images of the inside are not available in this batch, but we can already notice there's (thankfully!) no infotainment sticking out from the dashboard anymore. Judging by the license plate, it's the same test vehicle caught in early December 2021, but now with winter shoes to tackle the snowy climate. We are a bit puzzled as to why the sedan hasn't been spotted yet, but surely Audi will unveil the A4 in saloon guise first. There's also the possibility the Four Rings plan to show the more practical Avant from day one to mirror Mercedes and its latest C-Class, but that remains to be seen. Head of technical development Oliver Hoffman has announced the next A4 will get Audi's best combustion engines to date, complete with "more electrification, for sure, to meet the regs." Back in September 2019, the peeps from Ingolstadt revealed the next RS4 Avant will be a plug-in hybrid. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.motor1.com/news/561762/2023-audi-a4-winter-spy-photos/amp/

A twin-turbo V8 engine will power the Porsche and Audi LMDh prototypes under development for the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2023. Porsche has revealed that it is running what it described as "a large-capacity twin-turbo V8 unit" in its hybrid LMDh, which undertook its first shakedown tests earlier this month. The engine will be common to Volkswagen sister marque Audi's LMDh, which is being developed in parallel with the Porsche around the Canadian Multimatic organisation's next-generation LMP2 design. The capacity of the engine nor its origins have been released by Porsche, but the marque's new motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach indicated that the new motor is based on a production unit rather than being purpose designed for racing. “We were spoiled for choice with the engine for our LMDh prototype, because the product range offers several promising baseline units,” said Laudenbach. “We decided on the V8-biturbo, which we feel offers the best combination of performance characteristics, weight and costs." The only V8 in the Porsche road car line-up is the four-litre direct-injection twin-turbo found in both the four-door Panamera and the Cayenne SUV. The new race engine performed as expected during initial testing at Porsche's Weissach test facility, according to Urs Kuratle, overall project manager on the LMDh programme. "During these first test days at Weissach, the V8-biturbo impressed us in every respect," he said. "We’re convinced that we’ve chosen precisely the right unit.” Porsche stated in its latest LMDh announcement that the maximum power output of the engine is in the range of 480 to 520kW — or 643 to 697bhp — in line with the regulations for the new category. The combined power output of the internal combustion engine and the 40kW (53bhp) hybrid system developed by Williams Advanced Engineering, Bosch and Xtrac is capped at 520kW for the Le Mans 24 Hours and 500kW (670bhp) for other races. The only other details provided by Porsche in its latest statement were a maximum engine speed of 10,000rpm and that the engine together with its induction and exhaust systems weighs a minimum of 180kg as per the regulations. It is also fully compatible with the new biofuel WEC supplier TotalEnergies is introducing for the 2022 season. Also revealed in the latest statement was the name of the Team Penske-run factory operation that will represent Porsche in both the WEC and IMSA from next year: it will run under the Porsche Penske Motorsport banner. The roll-out for the Porsche LMDh with Frederic Makowiecki driving was the first outing for the new entity. "The squad worked well together right from the start: this shows a high level of professionalism in all areas," said Kuratle. "After all, the operational requirements for the safe running of a hybrid vehicle are very high. "In the next outings we will focus on going deeper into the required processes and procedures." Testing of the new Porsche was scheduled to move to a proper race circuit before the end of January. Porsche's announcement on Thursday morning was titled "The Porsche LMDh prototype enters active test phase". Audi revealed last year that its LMDh would run in the first quarter of 2022, but has yet to specify exactly when. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.motorsport.com/wec/news/porsche-audi-twin-turbo-v8-lmdh/7645033/amp/

I'd always go off the dipstick rather than the mmi one to be honest.

That's good then 🙂 glad you got sorted 🙂

That's not good! The average life of a battery is 5-7 years. Most come with a 3 year warranty. So might be worth seeing if you van get a refund on the current one.

My first port of call would be to get the battery checked for it's performance. As I failing battery can affected all sorts of electrical systems including stop/start.

If the option isn't in the mmi then that would lead me to believe it was an optional extra. You could always see if you could get it retrofitted. Or alternatively you could get an upgraded performance stainless steel exhaust.

Glad you got sorted 🙂

I'd get a second opinion from another garage but I wouldn't be cutting any corners where the braking system is concerned.

Glad this thread helped you 🙂

So glad we've saved you some money 🙂