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That's unfortunate and I too sympathise, however while it not the dealer's fault, under UK law it is the dealer's responsibility as the vendor to provide either a fix or a refund. The dealer evidently can not provide a fix so the customer must decide whether to go for a refund or accept a defective car.

Not so. While your dealer may have come to an arrangement with Audi UK to be compensated by them, that is a private arrangement between those two parties that can not be influenced or demanded by you. Your only legal enforceable recourse is directly with the seller, a provision of the 1979 Sale of Goods Act and its successor legislation.

Hi this is the usual line they feed a lot of customers so when your box fails they will say NO we said it was filled for life, either way no such thing and any local garage should be able to service it for you. Steve.

Thanks Stephen, Can we take it you didn’t bother to get your old battery tested? What brand of new battery did you buy, and did you have it coded to the car. Re. reporting if you have a reoccurrence of the issue, could you do us a kindness and let us know at the end of the month whether the problem remains solved or not? Failure to respond would leave the thread open, and other members unsure of whether it was the solution or not, and we are striving hard to avoid that. Many thanks, Gareth.

Take it back. On a 25 model car, then you could wait long enough for a software patch.

Given that Audi do not know how to fix it, when they can fix it, or even if they can fix it, I would not hesitate in taking it back for a refund. Audi is not the quality brand it was several years ago, having sold some models recently with expensive defects as a result of poor design and inadequate testing. Consequently one can not rely on an Audi promise to fix it at some some unknown time in the future.

Michelin CrossClimate+ but you’d need to do rears too. Excellent hybrid winter tyre. Nexen, hard wearing and good grip, basically a summer tyre. Ultimately depends on budget. Avoid cheap makes. All the big brands make decent tyres. Dunlop Sport usually a safe bet. Had Vredestein once, but compound too soft. Might be different on A3.

Oh you will love Brembo, I run them on my Passat that I use as a cab and by nature they get a hard time so if its a bench mark I get 40k out of the front pads and about 50k out of the rears, just had to buy some rears and got them off partsinmotion with wear indicator wire £25.80. Steve.