Hi all, well the Audi Q6 car has gone well and truly mad, claims to have 24 faults, just got in the car to go out and now can not, Audi can not send a tech support person till tomorrow.

Here are just some errors the car is showing, here are the top 16 faults

Steering Fault. Please stop vehicle
Rear Cross-Traffic unavailable
Rear Turn Assist unavailable
Side Assist unavailable
Lane Departure Warning currently unavailable
Exit Warning unavailable
Emergency Assist currently unavailable
Adaptive Light fault
Proactive Occupant Protection currently restricted
Fatigue Warning currently unavailable
TPMS Waring currently unavailable
Loose Wheel Warning Fault
Stabilisation Control ESC fault
Traffic Sign Recognition currently restricted
Dynamic Driving System fault
Main Beam Assist fault

This is the icing on the car with this car, more and more faults and issues can not wait to get rid of this pile of junk.

Edited May 25May 25 by Audi Q6-Etron

4 minutes ago, Audi Q6-Etron said:

Hi all, well the Audi Q6 car has gone well and truly mad, claims to have 24 faults, just got in the car to go out and now can not, Audi can not send a tech support person till tomorrow.

Here are just some errors the car is showing, here are the top 16 faults

Steering Fault. Please stop vehicle
Rear Cross-Traffic unavailable
Rear Turn Assist unavailable
Side Assist unavailable
Lane Departure Warning currently unavailable
Exit Warning unavailable
Emergency Assist currently unavailable
Adaptive Light fault
Proactive Occupant Protection currently restricted
Fatigue Warning currently unavailable
TPMS Waring currently unavailable
Loose Wheel Warning Fault
Stabilisation Control ESC fault
Traffic Sign Recognition currently restricted
Dynamic Driving System fault
Main Beam Assist fault

This is the icing on the car with this car, more and more faults and issues can not wait to get rid of this pile of junk.

Hi most of what you have there are sensor faults probably due to the weather and the camera system above the mirror, in 30 degrees today my Passat started all that with road sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, speed warning, lane assist all unavailable, only difference is the car still drives and does what it should because its a conventional diesel and the drive train is not connected to any of that crap, your problem is the software dictates that if you get more than one problem it affects the steering module which then shats itself and the message appears.

Steve.

4 minutes ago, Stevey Y said:

Hi most of what you have there are sensor faults probably due to the weather and the camera system above the mirror, in 30 degrees today my Passat started all that with road sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, speed warning, lane assist all unavailable, only difference is the car still drives and does what it should because its a conventional diesel and the drive train is not connected to any of that crap, your problem is the software dictates that if you get more than one problem it affects the steering module which then shats itself and the message appears.

Steve.

Thank you Steve, So do not park your car anywhere near the sun incase it has a melt down. Will check later to see if the issues have gone.

8 minutes ago, Audi Q6-Etron said:

Thank you Steve, So do not park your car anywhere near the sun incase it has a melt down. Will check later to see if the issues have gone.

Hi clean the screen and the front grille, wait until it gets cooler then try it.

Steve.

4 minutes ago, Stevey Y said:

Hi clean the screen and the front grille, wait until it gets cooler then try it.

Steve.

And then hope the UK has no more sun 😪

Just went out and checked, screen and sensor is spotless, car is also a lot cooler and still all the errors shows, I do not think its just a possible sensor at the front error as it's telling me wheels are loose and TPMS warning as example are not affected by the front sensors.

Will be interesting to see what the Audi tech says tomorrow morning.

Fingers crossed he says the car cannot be repaired and they have to make a financial deal with me to buy back the faulty car from day one.

Now that would make my day. 🤞

1 hour ago, Audi Q6-Etron said:

Just went out and checked, screen and sensor is spotless, car is also a lot cooler and still all the errors shows, I do not think its just a possible sensor at the front error as it's telling me wheels are loose and TPMS warning as example are not affected by the front sensors.

Will be interesting to see what the Audi tech says tomorrow morning.

Fingers crossed he says the car cannot be repaired and they have to make a financial deal with me to buy back the faulty car from day one.

Now that would make my day. 🤞

Hi sorry none of the suggestions worked out, I use my car as a cab and recently I see in my travels an increasing number of Golf Buggies attached to the back of rescue vehicles, mostly Jaecoos, I am just hoping to never have to buy one before I retire as the council want all cabbies to have electric vehicles which is why a lot of short timers like myself keep applying for extensions when the vehicles life has allegedly expired, one guy has just got another year on his fourteen plate Mondeo which gives me hope.

Steve.

1 minute ago, Stevey Y said:

Hi sorry none of the suggestions worked out, I use my car as a cab and recently I see in my travels an increasing number of Golf Buggies attached to the back of rescue vehicles, mostly Jaecoos, I am just hoping to never have to buy one before I retire as the council want all cabbies to have electric vehicles which is why a lot of short timers like myself keep applying for extensions when the vehicles life has allegedly expired, one guy has just got another year on his fourteen plate Mondeo which gives me hope.

Steve.

No worries, thank you for trying to assist.

I would have ignored the Audi dealer and rejected the car when the first faults happened, my advice to anyone thinking of a Q6 is to take your hard earned cash and spend it else where.

1 minute ago, Audi Q6-Etron said:

No worries, thank you for trying to assist.

I would have ignored the Audi dealer and rejected the car when the first faults happened, my advice to anyone thinking of a Q6 is to take your hard earned cash and spend it else where.

Excellent advice I don't think the Audi reliability reputation stands up anymore, know I would definitely never buy another one and considering the purchase price its not unreasonable to expect at least the first five years to be without any major drama, do tell how you get on.

Steve.

18 minutes ago, Stevey Y said:

Excellent advice I don't think the Audi reliability reputation stands up anymore, know I would definitely never buy another one and considering the purchase price its not unreasonable to expect at least the first five years to be without any major drama, do tell how you get on.

Steve.

Will do, Audi tech book for 7 am till 9 am visit so will let you know.

I have owned Audi RS4, RS6, SQ5 and the Q6 and my son has a A1 Competition and the Q6 will be the last Audi in the family, I do not go back to manufactures who manufacture cars and there backup on issues are, well I will be polite and say Poor, I have stronger words, its not the fact I have had issues it's the fact that 20 months later my faults have not all gone and now got bigger, can I ever trust this car to not let me down again but next time it may not be my driveway it has failed or worse when the wife is driving and in the middle of no where, once you loose faith in a car I do not think you every get it back.

Audi Tech man been, car is going to have to be recovered and taken to the dealer, he said he has never seen that many faults with the car and it could be the main ECU has failed.

Now awaiting for the car to be recovered and what car thy are going to give me.

Edited May 26May 26 by Audi Q6-Etron

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.

John you are not the first, and will not be the last, owner to discover that Audi's reputation as a reliable prestige brand went down the pan a decade ago. Engineers have been replaced by bean counters and mucketeers.

8 minutes ago, cliffcoggin said:

John you are not the first, and will not be the last, owner to discover that Audi's reputation as a reliable prestige brand went down the pan a decade ago. Engineers have been replaced by bean counters and mucketeers.

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.

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.

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.

1 hour ago, Audi Q6-Etron said:

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.

Hi all dealers are the same except for Toyota my friends cab is a Corolla Estate Hybrid 2024, when he bought it he told them what it was going to be used for and they suggested he took out the extended warranty/service plan, this has paid dividends as every time the service is due he gets a text to bring it in and he its in the air conditioned lounge drinking whatever and an hour later gets his car back, software updates are free and they request the vehicle before they get a problem, 70k out of a set of brake pads and now the car has well over 100k and whenever its serviced by them the mechanical warranty renews automatically on the engine, no wonder he bought two of them, Audi don't even get close and your paying three times the price of the Corolla, I hate it when the term premium brand is flung about, premium is it won't catastrophically fail in the first four years, premium is we will collect it the same day and drop off your courtesy vehicle while we are at it, no they think their customers are potential victims who can be exploited from afar, after all we are not part of the union.

Steve.

4 minutes ago, Stevey Y said:

Hi all dealers are the same except for Toyota my friends cab is a Corolla Estate Hybrid 2024, when he bought it he told them what it was going to be used for and they suggested he took out the extended warranty/service plan, this has paid dividends as every time the service is due he gets a text to bring it in and he its in the air conditioned lounge drinking whatever and an hour later gets his car back, software updates are free and they request the vehicle before they get a problem, 70k out of a set of brake pads and now the car has well over 100k and whenever its serviced by them the mechanical warranty renews automatically on the engine, no wonder he bought two of them, Audi don't even get close and your paying three times the price of the Corolla, I hate it when the term premium brand is flung about, premium is it won't catastrophically fail in the first four years, premium is we will collect it the same day and drop off your courtesy vehicle while we are at it, no they think their customers are potential victims who can be exploited from afar, after all we are not part of the union.

Steve.

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.

23 minutes ago, Audi Q6-Etron said:

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.

Hi they are ok unless you get the eco boost or the 2.0 eco blue as they have a habit of shredding the wet belt in the sump, hopefully you won't have it long enough to come across this, like I said they all have their problems but Audi seem to specialise in problems that are deniable.

Steve.

1 minute ago, Stevey Y said:

Hi they are ok unless you get the eco boost or the 2.0 eco blue as they have a habit of shredding the wet belt in the sump, hopefully you won't have it long enough to come across this, like I said they all have their problems but Audi seem to specialise in problems that are deniable.

Steve.

This is the full EV version.

3 minutes ago, Audi Q6-Etron said:

This is the full EV version.

Oh I have no idea about them as they are too new.

Steve.

On 5/25/2026 at 8:15 PM, Stevey Y said:

Excellent advice I don't think the Audi reliability reputation stands up anymore, know I would definitely never buy another one and considering the purchase price its not unreasonable to expect at least the first five years to be without any major drama, do tell how you get on.

Steve.

The purchase price doesn't indicate any level of reliability - in fact the more expensive the car the less reliable it will probably be. Buy a basic Kia Picanto with nothing on it and you probably can expect 5-10 years of reliable operation assuming it is serviced and not abused

The strict engineering definition of quality is whether something continues to function as designed, not whether the materials are premium. A £100k vehicle could have the best quality leather etc and the most advanced tech but if it fails to function as designed then it's quality is poor

1 minute ago, Stevey Y said:

Hi they are ok unless you get the eco boost or the 2.0 eco blue as they have a habit of shredding the wet belt in the sump, hopefully you won't have it long enough to come across this, like I said they all have their problems but Audi seem to specialise in problems that are deniable.

Steve.

This is the full EV version.

1 hour ago, sasquartch said:

The purchase price doesn't indicate any level of reliability - in fact the more expensive the car the less reliable it will probably be. Buy a basic Kia Picanto with nothing on it and you probably can expect 5-10 years of reliable operation assuming it is serviced and not abused

The strict engineering definition of quality is whether something continues to function as designed, not whether the materials are premium. A £100k vehicle could have the best quality leather etc and the most advanced tech but if it fails to function as designed then it's quality is poor

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.

Edited May 27May 27 by Audi Q6-Etron

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?

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.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by Audi Q6-Etron