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Very likely one or more rubber bushes in the rear suspension is soft or disintegrating. It would be worth renewing all of them before getting the rear tracking checked.

Enough! This thread is descending into farce so I am locking it. Clifford Coggin.

Fair enough William. No point in making unnecessary work for yourself. Have you checked that power to the cigarette lighter socket turns off with the ignition? It varies from car to car.

Right. I have changed my plans. Here's why. I am chickening out of removing the A panel trim for the reasons you mention. However, I can't get the wire tucked into the trim edge either. I have it under the headlining all right but I'm fearful of damaging the fabric if I go much harder on the A panel trim trying to get the wire under it: it is really really tight. Long story short, I found the passenger side A trim would allow me to run a wire under it. Unsuitable for hard wiring though so I've decided that in the short term I'd now run the power cable down the passenger side and use the cigarette lighter for that. I've managed to get that tucked into the side of the A panel trim and it looks fine. I ran the rear camera cable and have it attached to the side of the window with some of the wire grabber things that came with the kit and although not perfect, I can accept it at certainly for now. Given that I don't want two wires there, I'm initially going to also admit defeat on my initial idea of hardwiring the camera and will continue to run the power from the cigarette lighter using the wire on the passenger side I toyed with the idea of trying to hard wire it to the fusebox on the passenger side but I believe the fuses there are not very suitable. I'm going to leave this as is for the time being and see how I feel with it for a bit. Thank you everyone for helping me out with it.

Hi, no I have not got any further. Been trying to get in contact with a local Audi specialist so he has said he will phone me tomorrow and I would imagine he might want the car down to see if he can diagnose it. Will keep you posted.

My cars a 2015 model, I think that model run was 2011-2018, so yours should be the same. I had to move the A pillar trims to fix the compulsory sunroof leak. they unclip at the top but then you have to slide it up to release the lower hook. (Very difficult with headline in place) I managed 1, but the other was just too stiff and getting the one I’d removed back in was an absolute nightmare. The sunvisors need to come off too to move the headlining enough to lift the trim piece. If I was wiring a dashcam, I’ve seen fitters wrap some double sided sticky tape round the wire every foot or so and simply stuff it into the gap (with a trim removal tool), it’s how my wife’s Yaris’s dashcam went in! The tape then stops it vibrating loose/free. given the choice, I wouldn’t touch the A pillar trims again. Long shot but another possibility is to release the headlining from the front door rubber trim /seal just enough to feed a wire down behind the A pillar trim? It’s pretty crowded behind the A pillar with clips etc to hold the airbag in but it might work, especially if you can unclip the top end of that trim piece and move it towards the centre a bit (1” possibly! ) just to create a bit of an opening. NB, the top of the A pillar trim on mine needed to be pulled inwards towards the centre of the car, before I tried to lift to unhook the bottom end. A set of plastic trim removal tools helped enormously (my son had bought a set luckily). For info - Theres an online parts catalogue (for multiple manufacturers ) at LLLParts.co.uk that might give you an exploded view of the trim and their fixings. Takes a bit of browsing thru their website but maybe worth it. good luck.

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