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Hi all, Looking for some advice with my Audi A3 - Around 2 years ago I had issues around once a month where the car would be spluttering in gear (often 4th) causing me to engage the clutch or drop a gear, as it felt like the engine was labouring despite the revs being around 2k. Another side effect of this was the engine knocking or clunking abruptly when turning the engine off. I had a new throttle body fitted and all had been well and the clunking had stopped until recently. Current status is the car on startup is starting but the revs drop really low and the car splutters and physically jolts. Equally when shutting the engine off I’m now back to having an audible and abrupt clunk. The issues on startup and shut off are not happening every time which is causing confusion I’d say it happens 7/10 startups. Any thoughts on what could be causing this? I have no lights on the dash and the car seems to drive ok once the revs have settled after a couple of minutes. The engine is a 2.0tdi with 111k on the clock appreciate any feedback, BP

Hi al just became a member. Been wanting to join a forum for a while but never got around to it. Im hoping someone can shed a light on my Mrs Audi A3 , this afternoon im in Preston remapping a car fitting bigger injectors and other bits for a customer and my good lady rings me and the way she is talking I thought she was being kidnapped. I say calm down what's up she says " I'm stuck in the middle of a junction and the car won't move when I accelerate" I tell her I'm in Preston and can't do much. Eventually I finish what I'm doing and shoot of back to Blackpool as quick as the rs4 will go. I find her sat in her Audi at the side ot the road. Lift the bonnet and tell her to start it. Then say go through the dsg gear side and also the auto side.both driveshafts spin but the wheels don't turn. I tell her to do it again and same thing happens. I ring my pal and tell him to meet me at he car when he can, I take the Mrs home and a couple of hours later my buddy turns up. We go to the car to tow it back to mine. Attach it to his car and we pull off. That's when I hear and feel the drive shaft knocking and banging as if the drive shaft has snapped in the cup at one end, same noise my driveshaft made when I did it in at Santa pod. are the Audi A3 driveshafts known to go at the bearing cup or is there a fault with the dsg box there was no noises she said she just set off from the lights and it just wouldn't go anywhere. The clutch was changed 6 months ago, t only reason it's confusing me is that he drive shafts spin up when accelerate but don't turn the wheel. And there's no driveshaft noise till the wheel turns. Im going to jack it up today but can't be bothered taking the driveshaft out unless it's defo that , if not I'll take it to my garage and whip t gearbox off and rebuild it if I have to.. any my help anyone had this problem before please let me know thanks in advance

Hi guys! I have a 54 plate A3 Quattro 2.0T and I've had it for a few months now. At crawling speeds it makes a clearly audible thud when moving off, and feels the same as when your handbrake might stick (Its not the brakes as i've checked those .This wasnt much of a problem until it began to get worse (more knocking noises). I suspect that its a loose driveshaft connection and is just taking up the torque. A month or so after i bought it it developed a misfire so took it back to the dealer who fixed it under warranty. the procedure for removing the head somehow involved removing most of the 4WD system and gearbox etc and a week after i got it back it developed the above noise, and so naturally i suspec that that may have been the cause. My question to you lot is whether any of you have experienced such a noise, and what did you do to fix it? Many thanks!