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Audi RS 5 DTM sweeps top five positions also on Sunday René Rast wins duel with Saturday’s winner Nico Müller Audi RS 5 DTM breaks 300 km/h barrier The Audi RS 5 DTM is the car to beat also in the 2020 DTM. At the season opener at Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium), Audi swept the top five positions in the second race on Sunday as it had done the day before. Defending champion René Rast narrowly won a thrilling duel with Saturday’s winner Nico Müller. The podium on Sunday was completed by Robin Frijns. It was the ninth consecutive victory for Audi in the DTM. “This was an incredible start to the season with two fantastic results for Audi,” said Head of Audi Motorsport Dieter Gass after the latest triumph of the Four Rings. “My feeling is we’ve been even stronger today than yesterday. It’s great that we can continue where we left off last year. Spa is a very special circuit where good tire management is important. But you also need engine power at Spa. We clearly saw on those two days that we have the best engine.” After a disappointing first race on Saturday, defending champion René Rast made an impressive comeback on Sunday. The driver from Audi Sport Team Rosberg secured his 14th pole position with a new track record, turning the pole position into his 18th DTM victory in the race. The German also recorded the fastest lap. It was a very good race, much better than yesterday when I was fighting with the tires,” said the two-time DTM Champion. “We improved a few things on the car, but I also worked on my driving. We got our reward for this today. It was a cool fight with Nico and Robin – fair and good. Just the way it should be. The racing with DRS and Push-to-Pass in the DTM is awesome.” Rast took the lead immediately after the start but lost it to Müller on lap four. Towards the middle of the race, Rast also had to defend himself against Müller’s teammate Robin Frijns who eventually lost a lot of time at the pit stop, turning the three-way fight at the front into a duel. Rast reduced the gap to Müller with the help of DRS and Push-to-Pass, finally overtaking Müller six laps from the end of the race. An attempt by the Swiss driver to counterattack again on the last lap failed because his DRS closed after a small slide at the exit “Eau Rouge” and could not be opened again. “All in all, the weekend was superb,” said Müller. “I am leading the championship. But I have never been so unhappy about a second place. We should have won today as well. I felt like I had everything under control.” Robin Frijns, Müller’s teammate at Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline, completed the podium with third place. The Dutchman also handled the tires much better on Sunday than the day before. “Unfortunately, I had a bad start. And my strategy of driving particularly long with the first set of tires didn’t pay off because my gap after the pit stop was simply too big.” Rast’s teammate Jamie Green fought his way up from eighth on the grid to fourth. Mike Rockenfeller and Loïc Duval from Audi Sport Team Phoenix finished fifth and seventh. Duval made up six positions in the race after his fastest time in qualifying had been cancelled. The customer team WRT Team Audi Sport wrote a piece of DTM history: Fabio Scherer was the first driver to break the 300 km/h barrier with a Class 1 racing car in Sunday’s race. After the first two of 18 scheduled races, Audi leads the Manufacturers’ Championship with 152:34 points clearly ahead of BMW. The DTM continues on August 15/16 and 22/23 with a total of four races at the Lausitzring in Germany. https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/audi-dominates-dtm-season-opener-at-spa-13043

Beautiful car, and a rarity nowadays 👍

As I suspect your q5 is keyless, the key symbol is where you place your key if for any reason the key fails to talk to the cars imobiliser. Putting the key there allows for the strongest signal between key and car. Mainly applicable when the key fob batteries start to fail etc. Cheers Steve

I thought you had to have the matching ECU etc from the car for it to work? That definitely used to be the case on older vag cars. Cheers Steve

You'd be surprised how basic some of the Audi MMI units actually are. You're best bet is to fit an aux adapter into the back.of the head unit I believe. Cheers Steve

The first thing I would look to see if there's anything trapped stopping the roof from operating as this will be the cheapest fix first off. Cheers Steve

Just to add, this YouTube video might help: Cheers Steve

The problem with a lot of LED lights is that they throw up bulb failure warnings. I cat really advise on which brand to buy though, sorry. Cheers Steve

So sorry to hear of your issue Alex. I believe on most vag cars of the era if you swap the engine you need the matching clocks, ecu etc or have it all coded. As such it's probably advisable you speak to an auto electrician as I think this is where your issues will arise. As you say the engine should bolt straight in, but you'll need to keep the a8 engine mounts. It might be worth having the engine stripped to see if it is salvageable as you don't really have anything to loose in my opinion. Cheers Steve

If the key fob has a conventional key attached somewhere you might find the key slot is hidden on the drivers door handle behind a cap. If you've got aa or similar recovery it might be worth giving them a call.

Glad we could help 🙂 it's all about the service history, the more the better as it gives you a indication of how the cars been treated.

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Welcome to the forum Steve, you'll find the members on here are a friendly and helpful bunch 🙂 Your a4 sounds interesting 👍 Cheers Steve

Hi Vanessa, yep it's worked. I believe the style in.the first link is what you need. Cheers Steve

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What a great project! Do love an 80 🙂

Not sure of any members locally to you I'm affraid. But it's better putting that on our Facebook group 👍

How odd. There should be a button at the bottom of where you type that says "click to choose files" You should be able to upload pics from there. But make sure they're not too big. Cheers Steve

You're welcome. Good luck

The gearbox is the cvt type as standard I believe but a tiptronic gearbox was optional extra on some models. The cvt gearboxe takes 4 - 5 litres of fully synthetic oil. Don't even think about putting dextron III or IV in or you can kiss the box goodby. In addition if you do try and change the oil yourself, make sure you're wearing clothes that you're prepaired to throw away! Gearbox oil will leave anything it touches stinking of sulphur! This link should help too: http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/179883-CVT-Gear-box-oil-change cheers Steve

You're welcome, Glad you've got to the bottom of it 🙂 As you say a new weather seal is probably the best answer 🙂 Cheers Steve

This video might help: Cheers Steve

You're welcome, please could you send a pic of the front of your car. Being a 64 plate I'm wondering if it's the first generation q3 or 2nd generation. The first generation ended production in 2014 abd the 2nd generation came out the same year. Here's another one which is slightly different: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184004550381 Cheers Steve

I agree with Kev, definitely look at the battery area. It's it playing up with the electrics then it may have affected the CCM module. Also worth looking at the pollen filter housing as this cracked on my a6. Cheers Steve