cliffcoggin

That's good news John. New bulbs and clear lenses are often the cheapest and certainly the simplest solution to poor light output.

You may find this of interest: https://www.audiownersclub.com/forums/topic/30706-halogen-to-led-lights/

Well if manufacturers can not fit LED lamps that do not dazzle oncoming traffic, amateur conversions have no chance of getting it right. I posted the topic as a future reference for the regular questions we get about uprating headlamps because I have little knowledge of the matter.

I came across this video investigating conversion of halogen to LED headlights. It is American so the brands are irrelevent to us, but what I found interesting was the variation of beam patterns, colour temperatures, heat sink sizes, and drops in output after a few minutes from one brand to another. It seems there is no standard applicable to these bulbs so it is a lottery for anyone to choose what to buy. For myself I shall stick to tungsten lamps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0L4ueGqtTs

Winter weather always reveals the weakness of a dying battery. At eight years old it undoubtedly needs to be renewed. Don't forget to get it coded to the car.

Andy. It's unrealistic to expect a valuation without an opportunity to inspect it, to listen to it, to test drive it, or to examine the service history. Look at Autotrader and the like, or go to a dealer.

Test drive a SQ5 before becoming too keen. There are complaints on the forum about the harshness of the ride.

Don't leave the coding too long. It will run as it is but the battery will likely be cooked by over charging shortly.

Thank you chaps, and the same to you all. After watching the concert from the Musikverein Vienna, I'll take advantage of the sunshine and walk the lanes nearby. Cliff.

So it's not "Twice now (since September" as you first wrote, it's twice since 6 days ago. Fair enough, though it still needs to be reported to Audi as soon as possible.

I don't understand why you have delayed. The car is still under guarantee so the fault needs to be logged by Audi even if nothing is done about it initially.

Personally no as I have never used one, however the opinions of those with more expertise on the forum such as Spartacus and Stevey Y can be relied on. I suspect they will suggest VCDS. Cheap scanners can not discriminate every fault, that's why they are cheap.

Use whatever type is recommended in the manual. Do yourself a favour and get a decent brand. Yuasa and Exide spring to mind. I'm sure there are others that I don't recall at the moment. Cheap batteries always work out more expensive in the end.

Don't forget to get the new battery coded to the car.

Get the battery professionally tested as a starting point. Your symptoms are typical of a dying battery so that needs to proven or eliminated before getting the car scanned for faults.

Greg. I have merged your two posts as one contains details of the defects you omitted from the other.

The absense of a warning light is not significant. There are less than a dozen such lights but many hundreds of possible error codes, so it is impossible to have a light for each. Scanning for error codes is the best starting point as Steve said.

Ah, catch tanks. The favourite bodge of the clever clogs amateur mechanic intent on defeating every attempt to improve the atmosphere we breathe. It seems to be particularly popular in America.

Tyler. We have very few Americans on the forum so don't be surprised if you don't get any responses. You may realise that already, but I mention it just in case.

The dealer's feeble excuse sounds suspicious to my cynical way of thinking. Nevertheless if the problem has been solved rather than concealed it's a good outcome.

Do you a resolution to the problem yet Ian?

If there is any suspicion regarding the battery you would do well to get it tested professionally. It may have been damaged when it was allowed to go flat.

I see you have visited the forum just two hours ago. Have you no response to the three replies you have received to your question? Have the three of us wasted our time considering your problem?

Are you sure the car can recognise .mp3 files? Perhaps another audio file format such as .ogg or .wav is required.

Phil. I recall an extensive thread on this topic during the past year that may pay you search for. I don't recall what the resolution was.