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Or indeed a broken-near-end spring, which maybe difficult to see without close examination. Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello Tony, With any persisting electrical issue, it’s always worth getting the battery efficiency measured to establish whether it’s a contributory cause or not. Perhaps you could let us know whether you acquired the car with that battery, or if you bought it during your (how long?) ownership. Way forward:- take the car to an Halfords store and ask them to check the battery’s efficiency for you. Get the alternator output checked at the same time. If the battery is found to be sub standard, you may want to come back to us, before you buy a replacement from Halfords. My take on it, for what it’s worth:- It wouldn’t surprise me that the battery you have is ‘reconditioned reject’ bought because it was cheap. Please come back with the outcome - as Cliff says.

Hello Tony, Saying it as I see it, I don’t have any interest in the battery at the moment - and certainly no intention of clicking on the link - other than to say it looks like a spurious brand to me. What I am interested in, and I’m not sure why you aren’t telling us! :- what symptoms is the car is suffering from? Typed while Cliff was responding. Sorry Cliff, I’ll leave this one to you to try to get to the bottom of. Bit odd?

Hello Tony, I think you are getting your amps and milli-amps in a twist. If you genuinely have a ‘parasitic drain’ of 0.06mA, you don’t have a parasitic drain! Interpreting your meter reading:- your meter is reading 0.06 of an amp, which equals 60mA. Does a drain of 60mA point to an issue? No - there or there abouts normal in my book. If you have say a 60Ah capacity battery, and left the car unattended, it would theoretically take around 42 days to drain the battery. Apologies, but what I’m missing here is what are you considering is wrong, and what are the symptoms?

Hello Dave, Tank capacity is 54 litres by what I understand, so you a work out how much it will cost to fill the tank - based on the cost/ltr. in your area for the fuel brand you choose. Hopefully you will get responses to question (2) which will allow you to work out the answer to question (3). Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello Matty, Arrange a visit to your local Citizen’s Advice Bureau, and ask their advice on how to make an official written complaint to the selling dealer. Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello, whoever you are, Can you please take a little bit of your time to complete your profile properly. Thank you.

Hello David, Fingers crossed all will be well. Perhaps you can update us once the job has been finished. Kind regards, Gareth.

You do seem to be rather ‘fixated’ on this gearbox issue, when there are far more things that can, and do, go wrong despite the proof of FSH. Rather surprised that the car has a service book as posed to be recorded on the VAG ( International I guess) computer service record. That would be my main chasing point. Personally I cannot add to what I said in yesterday’s post in terms of gearbox service. They are going to do it and warrant it, so….? Kind regards, Gareth.

Thanks Denis, but you said Kms. in your original post.

Hello both, The OP joined, posted on the same day, and never returned to the forum after that. You could try sending him a PM in the hope that he retains the same e-mail address. Please let us know if you have a response. Kind regards, Gareth.

Are we considering just over 100K miles (170kms) high, for an 8 year old vehicle? Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello Derek, I’m pretty certain you are stuck with this, but it has been subject to another thread, so well worth doing a search on here for ‘pre sense’. Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello Joe, Welcome and thanks for joining. It’s difficult to answer your question without knowledge of the mileage this 9 year old car has covered - we take it you know that. As I see it:- unless this car has covered a galaxial mileage, then I don’t see an issue. After all, the seller (direct importer?) has promised to carry out your gearbox oil change and offer a guarantee, so…? My ‘concerns’ would be:- have you already had sight of the service history, have you actually viewed the car, is the seller going to give you a receipt for the work they intend to do pre-purchase, and do they have the facility to input that data ( via. the VIN) onto the VAG on-line service history system? Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello David, To my logic, the suffix A denotes an earlier version of your later B, so possibly from a pre 2009. Significance?? If it remanufactured as opposed to just ‘secondhand’, then the remanufacturer will/ should have the experience to answer any questions about specific differences. Have you asked, and have you had a reply? Kind regards, Gareth.

Or you can knock the door Ian if anything goes wrong!

Hello Wendy, Welcome, and sorry to hear of your issue. This just isn’t acceptable. Have you tried a search on here for ‘pre sense’? I’m sure there is a thread going on it. If it were mine, I would be threatening ( in writing) to reject the vehicle. Kind regards, Gareth.

Thanks Ian, Please come back when you believe you have narrowed it down to a more specific location. Differential noise can usually be made to alter by assessing whether the noise changes on smooth acceleration and decelerating. Kind regards, Gareth. p.s. please do not assume that a private purchase results in no comebacks. The vehicle must still be as described. That is why sellers now simply state ‘ Starts, stops, drives.’

Of course you are both right, and on reflection, the £130 charged wasn’t too bad. It’s just my mind would have been set on the very low cost resolution of a squirt of WD40 and a light tap on the offender. It’s a Welsh thing of short arms and deep pockets! Glad it’s fixed, and thanks for returning me to the true scene of economics? Kind regards, Gareth.

Thanks Arun. We have to be careful in respect to what we quote. Surely quite a difference between an A4 and an e-Tron. Shame the OP hasn’t returned to view the responses and give us some clarification. Kind regards, Gareth.

Great John. Glad the forum was able to help, and save you the cost of fruitlessly renewing the water pump. Kind regards, Gareth.

Not bad!-?

Hello John, Sorry to hear of your issue, and I feel it might be beneficial to step back and give this another coat of thinking about before taking any action which might result in unnecessary expense. When you say you have checked for head gasket issues and ‘and am receiving no signs’, have you taken the car on a c10 mile run to make sure both coolant and oil are up to operating temperatures, then park the car with the engine running and getting an assistant to rev. the engine at a steady 2,000 rpm for 2 minutes while you observe the exhaust smoke - looking for white water vapour smoke? That’s a free, and progressive test. For the relatively small cost involved, it’s worth renewing the coolant reservoir top, since these sometimes can give rise to such issues. Are you sure you are not seeing any external evidence of coolant stain residue? If the above fails to reap meaningful progress then if it were mine, I would be next considering having the coolant system pressure tested, before considering changing any components deemed to be possible suspects. Perhaps you Luke let us know how you get on John. Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello Arun, Thanks for joining and for the burst of replies to posts in such a short space of time - indeed, in this case before the OP has returned to the forum to respond to some necessary clarification. You are indeed ahead by stating the ‘owners manual says….’ which I take it you have sight of -? I could be wrong, but my belief is that in recent years, recommended tyre pressures are displayed on sticker on the car rather than within the handbook, but… I think the forum can only respond once we have confirmation from the OP, that the tyres fitted to his car, are indeed a correct option size. I notice you are in the U.K. Arun, but rather confusing that you are using the American spelling of ‘tire’ rather than our tyre. Any particular reason? Kind regards, Gareth.

Hello Neil, Sorry about being pedantic, but when you say ‘For my tyre size…’ could you confirm that is indeed for listed 245/35/19 and not just for some other 19 tyre? As you will appreciate, 35 profile tyres are an extremely low profile, so may well need that high tyre pressure. If however everything is correct in terms of exact tyre size and psi , all I can add is that this car is going to ride as if it’s on solid tyres! Perhaps you an come back to us Neil. Kind regards, Gareth. p.s. XL tyres?