a6blacked007

Few different faults yesterday 

mention of brake switch 

with faults all over place could be pointing to battery. 

Few different faults yesterday car had been jacked up passenger side I was sitting in drivers seat alloy wheel had been straightened 

Brake switch this time 🤔

43 minutes ago, 56Doc said:

Couple of folks have said that Audi can activate if it was standard fit but not switched on from build/delivery. 
Not sure when they started fitting as standard, suspect it was much later.

Yeah possibly seen alot of posts were its been activated and bricked mmi system so just be careful and do you research.

Mines 2013 so would need hardware.

I did buy this for my van delivered £40 android auto apple car place etc .

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mO5eQnE

33 minutes ago, 56Doc said:

I took a previous car in for tyres after damaging 2 in a pothole, found 1 wheel not only buckled but had a 2” split in it too!

No reliable fix for that sadly. But luckily found a pair of 2nd hand wheels in good condition as spare was space saver of course.

Yeah sometimes there just too far gone and replacement is only way.

20inch alloys are difficult to keep straight tbh.

26 minutes ago, 56Doc said:

That’s quite impressive. Didn’t know anyone could straighten Alloys!

At £60 a wheel much more cost effective then new or used.

24 minutes ago, 56Doc said:

I’ve thru the list of functions on Carista, no mention of figs with sidelights or car play.

anyone know if these are even available?

 

What year is your car some dont come with it.

Before ^

After ^

Just had mine done vibration is gone .

Possible bent alloy wheel or wheel bearing. 

Hi @56Doc

Give carista a try download to your mobile phone use with Bluetooth obd.

On 1/21/2022 at 10:00 PM, Asad said:

Thanks for all the reply guys I appreciate it. I did do a battery check myself with a voltmeter and it did seem fine but I will get it professionally done to see if they can find anything with it. Will get in contact with Halfords and take it for a test. Will update you guys one done. 

 

Thanks 

Update please @Asad

Got my alloy wheel straightened out today 

Before ^

After ^

Great service 

Alloyfix ... 

There in Westerhope - Newcastle upon tyne if anyone local needs wheels doing highly recommended. 👍

40 minutes ago, johngf_uk said:

Now the garage are telling me the car is throwing up headlight cooling fan fault after replacing led headlight can anyone shed some light on this as I am losing faith in their ability to repair car

It needs a proper audi specialist or audi is module correct one for car

Some faults can cause other faults to seem present when there not.

12 minutes ago, amowolves said:

hi @a6blacked007so I've had no issues since I last posted....that is until yesterday! I took the car to get cleaned at my local hand wash and i asked them to vacuum the car. I was watching him rest his body weight over the back seat and the centre tunnel and I was thinking to myself if the fault would come back as I've asked my kids to avoid that area for the last couple of weeks.

and low and behold as soon as I drove off from the car wash all the errors returned! argggghhh!

anyway so I took the back seat off and had another look at the central gateway module as well as all the cabling (by the way mine wasn't bolted down either). but this time not matter what I did I could not get it to stop pinging with errors.

an hour later I started applying body pressure to other areas of the car like the centre console and it seemed to replicate the faults but I couldn't narrow the area down specifically to one spot. I was about to start stripping the centre console down thinking it might be a loose connection in the area of the rear ac controls and vents. But....it got me thinking!

Everytime I was applying body weight to the central console area the other thing my body is doing is applying the opposing force to the drivers seat! so I started moving around in the seat and the dash started to light up! so I got under the seat and just checked all the various connections, everything seemed to be in, but as soon as I did this all the errors cleared!! so now I'm thinking it might have been a loose connection under the drivers seat all along! there are multiple connections under a black plastic cover. I removed that and checked all the connectors were firmly in place. I've done done 20miles since and all seems to be well again...touchwood.

So it might be worth you checking the same connections since you mentioned the errors seem to happen every time you ride up a kerb. Hope that helps!

Thanks for the reply had no issues since my last post .

Funny you should say that I was fitting a gps antenna to back off mmi unit few weeks ago and all errors came up on dash.

Airbag light refused to go out until was cleared with carista app.

Will give everything a check under seat I think we're on the right track and we should solve this 1 sooner or later ... 

  Regards mark

Can't wait to see the finished item 

Get some pictures up 

38 minutes ago, Steve Q said:

2.5tdi V6. 

Brilliant engine the 2.5 tdi 

7 minutes ago, Steve Q said:

It is major. Crank gone, turbo gone etc. So full rebuild time. It has covered 344k, so full overhaul is due to be fair. Should then last another 300k hopefully 

344k wow what engine is it 3.0tdi 

2 hours ago, Steve Q said:

Nice one 🙂 

By the time I'm.fubished mine will have had new internals in the engine, new turbo and new injectors at least. 

Whats up with engine @Steve Q sounds major 

Did they run a scan what fault codes come up .... 

Is it a regular garage or audi specialist ..

Since a bought mine 6 weeks ago 

●Full service oil air filter oil filter cabin filter fuel filter 

●Disks and pads all round 

●New main thermostat 

●X2 front tyres 

●New xenon front bulbs

●New floor mats 

●New clutch kit & dmf

●Drivers side wheel bearing 

●Newer style rear lights

●Dynamic side mirror indicators

●GPS antenna off ebay 

●Locking wheel bolts 

●New wheel centre caps 

●Replaced air con pressure sensor and regass

●Replaced xenon headlight module passenger side 

●Replaced passenger and drivers wing mirrors 

●Drivers side alloy wheel Professionally straightened 

🫡

X2 new pirelli p zeros fitted to fronts and found out alloy wheel is badly buckled.

Hi guys and gals had 1 of these on bmw forum and some good content thrown about so I will start one here 

Fitted set of mats off eBay the genuine audi mats were looking bit ropey delivered £12.99

My kids will just wreck them so these will do for me lift the interior and smell nice .... 🤙

On 3/23/2023 at 9:05 PM, Moses said:

Thanks Gareth for your response, will be starting the car daily again let’s see how it goes. 
 

Just a quick update - I’ve driven the car yesterday and today and no message when starting the car, fingers crossed it was a cold battery issue as the car hadn’t been started for 2 weeks 

Coded mine out hateful thing start - stop .... 

Good luck 

Just had my 2013 a6 c7 2.0 tdi done was mammoth job (driveshafts - steering rack remove etc) £750 for clutch and dmf and release bearing LUK 

£350 to fit that was very good price off a friend.

All in £1100 

Just update took module out unplugged gave it a shake opened it up 

My nuts were missing that hold module down so replaced them.

Theres 2 clips that keep seat fixed down and up off metal that were in poor condition so were replaced 

Damaged 

Replacements.

They also stop seat pushing down on module only few quid on eBay too.