Justin Hartwell

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hi all you Audi experts. My Q7 seems to make up its mind when the rear wiper works or not, it seems to work even when the lever is off. When switched on it might work once of twice and stop mid screen. I am awaiting delivery of a second hand motor but this seems more like a wiring issue. Any help please?

Dave, I actually had two earth straps fitted last week with the main one cleaned up and now its much better starting. Cost of £25.

hi guys, my boot lid will unlock on occasions but not lift up, this is subject to the boot light also not coming on, if I use the door switch it will lift up. I imagine if the key fob battery was low the lid wouldn't disengague or open. Any ideas please?

Hi Dave, interesting article this. This has been happening on my 2014 q7 for four years now, never failed to start but very lazy on the odd occasions. We now see the boot lid not opening or closing on the key fob but ok to open from the door switch. No boot light will eliminate which is the sign that it will be lazy to start. Today the boot has failed three times ! Could this also be linked to the earth strap failing, no error codes present. Your thoughts please Dave would be appreciated

Hi all, questions for you if I may. My 2014 Q7 has always turned over once, very slight delay then starts on the second turn over, never let me down in any season. Yesterday when back from shopping the boot was open and I tried to re start the engine, this time it really struggled to start with very slow turn over with a big gap in between the second, third and fourth turn until it started. I shut the boot and went in the house. Went out five minutes later and it was all fine without the slight delay as per usual. This morning all fine again. No codes from the reader to identify any issues. The battery will be 6 years old now but I have no reason to believe this is the issue, I'm more concerned from older posts an issue with the earthing strap giving up and needs replacement. The truck is covered by an extended warrenty for electrics but not the battery. You guys ever had similar issues please !???

Hi all, when opening the boot on my Q7 using the boot button on the drivers door, when ready to close it, the boot button doesn't seem to work, the boot light is also not on. If I push the boot button in the divers door again, it almost seems to reset the boot button and it then works again, seems to be very intermittent. any ideas please, the car is covered by extended warranty so can get it looked at. It's a 2014 model.

Tow bars for you based in the north east were excellent, did the job in around an hour and even offered me the strut that came off the car. Plugged in their laptop to allow the car to understand it was towing a trailer. Total job cost £675. Great company

Hi Pete, got it checked and the towing assistance button was still on, thus keeping the dynamic setting unlit.

Use sytner select in Leicester, blackbird road, got my q from, and q5 and spot on. Ask for Daryl. He will look after you.

This sounds like you purchased from S cars ???? he has loads of them, all cut about and all with TVs screens and side steps. Avoid at all costs. Asked about trade in of my toureg top of the range and he tried telling me it was the mid range one !. Not a garage I would ever entertain so pass this on. He also has a lot of range rovers for sale

Hi Pete, thanks for the reply. The boot button lights up but nothing. i have taken out a years warranty so it's all covered to be fixed. A vag workshop suggest it could be low pressure or if plugged in will report some error codes on the ecu so will find out soon enough. These are expensive motors so worth getting some cover if it's available

Hi all, when choosing to change settings from comfort to dynamic, when I scroll to this option, it isn't highlighted so can't choose it. All I have is auto, off-road, comfort and auto, why is this ?? also the button in the boot to lower the back of the car doesn't seem to work, it lights up but nothing happens. any ideas guys ??

Hi all, hope you are well. returned from a trip to France in my beloved Q7. jumped in it to go shopping and decided to change the suspension setting from comfort to dynamic but it's isn't an option on the mmi dial, it's not highlighted whereas the other options are available. can anyone help please as the button in the boot to lower the back of the truck also isn't working, has been a bit hit and miss since I purchased it 18 months ago.

Hi all, wondering if you can help my reap wiper is always getting blocked up and now the front headlight washers never seem to work when I try and clean the windscreen. I have noticed the washer bottle needs filling up more often than before and there is some signs of blue screen wash on the pipes by the filler bottle running underneath the bottle. I can hear the pump pushing water through though and the front screen washes fine. I can see no puddles of water below but in fairness there's so much stuff in the way, it's hard to see. any ideas

Il have another look Steve, thank you

This is a bit of a silly question I'm guessing but in muddy or snowy conditions, if you put the driving mode to lift and it's highest suspension setting, does this literally give it the highest point or does it also change the diff setting too in order to offer more grip as 25mph is top speed my Touareg was set up for these options on the dial so wondered if such an expensive Q7 had this or was just a posh four by four !!

Hi all, happened to see a q7 for sale that had 20mm wheel spacers fitted and it just gives the 7 a slightly butcher stance. does anyone know if this will make it drive or handle any differently at all even though it just pushes the wheels out a little wider. your thoughts please??

Hi all, own a 14 plate Q7 that has just turned onto 28,000 miles and the service light is on. I will be taking it to my local independent garage who I trust and have used for years with all previous cars and trucks. they seem to think it will need just an oil change and filter so I choose to believe them but wondered if you experts knew a little more ???? i understand other filters need changing at 40,000 so it could well be just the above, brake pads look fit and well. Thoughts please guys and gals

Hi dave, no they are 21 inch, 295 35 107Y

Thank you guys, I understand what you are saying, £250 a corner seems steep after driving virtually the same car with £122 pound a corner and not felt any different. The truck only used for pottering about with dog and longer journeys every other weekends and 2 trips to France for which currently drives superbly as you would expect. I have also tried to adopt the same tyre as the car came with for some reason

Hi all, have posted on here a little while ago with the thought to changing my Michelin pilot sport 3 tyres as the rears are just legal while the front still have a good bit of meat left on them. A friend bought his Q7 which has acceler Lora tyres, same spec as mine and whilst I was concerned about the performance and reviews, upon driving his truck, the tyres seems spot on, good braking and just as quiet as my rather more expensive tyre set up. Pilots are around £250 each and his are around £ 122 each. my thoughts are to purchase two part worn pilots for the back to level all four up until needing replacements, buy 2 accelra for the back, is this ok as although matching along with the fronts matching pilots, I could just replace all four with accelera tyres for £500 all in. Seems a waste of the existing front tread levels im not an expert in this field of tyres and wondered what you guys and gals would do in this situation. Your thoughts would be well received

Thank you gents, the beast has only done 22000 miles since new and was used for school runs so will keep changing the settings to see what happens

Hi all, hope your weekend is going well. having recently bought my Q7 and absolutely loving it, if I change the suspention setting to low, it drops down but towards the end of the process it makes a creeping noise, maybe 2 or 3 creeks. any thoughts on this please????