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2007 3.0tdi Q7 advice/help on gremlins


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Hi all. I鈥檓 Tom from the Uk 馃檪

so I have a 2007 Q7 and I鈥檝e owned it the past 4 years. It owes me nothing and i聽love the car.聽

Over the years there鈥檚 been little gremlins that I haven鈥檛 had time to do anything about and to be honest they鈥檙e not show stoppers. But, since were all in lock down due to COVID19, I鈥檝e got some time on my hands and wouldn鈥檛 mind doing a little DIY on the old bus, if I can.聽

The beast pulls in every gear, full audi service history up till my ownership, which I now fully service every 6k religiously with OEM parts, except the gearbox. I have a specialist friend for that. 160k on the clock and the girl runs smooth!聽

so, the little gremlins that id like to address聽are as follows.聽

1) DAB Signal - it鈥檚 really poor! More so when there鈥檚 something plugged into the 12v cig lighter slot or if the DVD players in the back are on. Is there anything I can do to improve this?聽

2) Front display TV reception - again really poor! It used to be fine, perhaps something to do with DAB signal too?聽

3) side lane assist thingy (tells you not to pull out on the motorway if there鈥檚 a car coming)聽聽- not working and comes up with when button is pressed. It used to work but stopped some time ago.聽

4) the rear passenger air suspension - is around 20mm lower when the car is parked聽

5) can I change the set ride height so that the car sits lower than factory without the use of the VAG software?聽

6) front heated drivers seat heater - temperamental聽

7) can I somehow retrofit something to connect my phone (iPhone) to the Bluetooth system to play music through the stereo?聽

馃槑 little square buttons on door handles. What are they for? Mine are not working at all聽

9) boot closing - closed 9/10 but it鈥檚 always that 1 time I don鈥檛 check; is there adjustment to ensure it closes ever time?聽

10) front side lights. No LED replacements work in these what so ever. Anyone got any suggestions?聽

11) how difficult is it to remove swirl flaps? One of my motors has fudged itself. Is there a step by step guide?聽

12) anyone blanked their EGR before? What鈥檚 the best kit and will I need to map it out?聽

I think that is all. Massive appreciation to anyone who can assist 馃檪

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Hi only owned a Q7 for about a month so only very superficial advice from me. 馃檪

swirlf flaps- reason I own a Q7 as I was too slow replacing mine in my BMW e90. I did take them out and blank once I had a compression issue, when I removed inlet manifold they had broken so had to replace it blank; I blanked (拢10 kit for BMW).

this was a very messy horrible job - gunk you鈥檝e never seen the likes of (at 150k miles)

if I was to do the Q7 I would get a garage to do it. And yes I鈥檓 pondering it.

re phone interface - I have the worst MMI - would live to replace the dash for the android setup but it would cost a fortune in the replacing the Bose and wiring etc - also it would be a toy and tbh I often play with them for a while then just drive.

denison.com seem to do some interesting gateway devices that will integrate into your system and provide what your looking for, for me it would simply be iPhone connection (I鈥檇 be happy if my mmi version will take it without software update - but sorting some more practical issues currently)

currently I have a parrot set up (bought with) and I use an FM transmitter/Bluetooth receiver- and for about 拢10 works perfectly fine only thing I may do is add a relay to provide ignition on based power vs. Always on as I push in /out the lighter all the time. Pic of this below suited the layout the nicest/most discreet and has functions you can use for forwards back play pause etc. Also wanted it without hands free as parrot did this.

As I say not sure what value my early amateur ramblings are but there they are! 馃檪

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