hi all
i posted this ad before and have been advised to put it on the a3 & a4 forums as the cars share the same engine, if you have any advise it would be really appreciated......
i have a 2000 a6 1.8t avant. i had only driven it about 500 miles after purchasing it (i think the bloke new about the problem....) when i started getting some idling problems. at first the idling movement was only small, it moved maybe between 900-1100 when the car was stationary. it would do this for about a minute but then it would go back to normal. this may happen twice a week. a little while after that i had a number of different light bulbs blow on me over the period of a week. just after this happened the idling problem come back but worst so i stopped driving the car.
i left it a couple of days, went back to try it and the idling was now normal but now brake pedal was now solid! i tried to drive the car to test but to stop i had to push down the pedal with all of my force.
i'm now really worried about my new car that i've blown all my money on!
i left it for a couple of days to test, to my suprise the brakes are now back to normal but the idling is worst than ever!!!
i tried to investigate only to find that water has got in the passenger side and saturated the passenger foot well. i have dried it all out but the problems remains.
i've spoken to a few people who think it may be the ecu as there is a number of problems that have occured at the same time, audi didn't really comment when i spoke to them for advise, they just want around £150 just to put it on the diagnosis machine! i have had the alternator checked out as this was a suspect, it was fine.
is there anyone out there that has any clue what is going on with my car?
or has anybody had a similar problem?
any help would be really appreciated as i need to get it repaired and need to go the cheapest route using used parts if possible....? thanks
i posted this ad before and have been advised to put it on the a3 & a4 forums as the cars share the same engine, if you have any advise it would be really appreciated......
i have a 2000 a6 1.8t avant. i had only driven it about 500 miles after purchasing it (i think the bloke new about the problem....) when i started getting some idling problems. at first the idling movement was only small, it moved maybe between 900-1100 when the car was stationary. it would do this for about a minute but then it would go back to normal. this may happen twice a week. a little while after that i had a number of different light bulbs blow on me over the period of a week. just after this happened the idling problem come back but worst so i stopped driving the car.
i left it a couple of days, went back to try it and the idling was now normal but now brake pedal was now solid! i tried to drive the car to test but to stop i had to push down the pedal with all of my force.
i'm now really worried about my new car that i've blown all my money on!
i left it for a couple of days to test, to my suprise the brakes are now back to normal but the idling is worst than ever!!!
i tried to investigate only to find that water has got in the passenger side and saturated the passenger foot well. i have dried it all out but the problems remains.
i've spoken to a few people who think it may be the ecu as there is a number of problems that have occured at the same time, audi didn't really comment when i spoke to them for advise, they just want around £150 just to put it on the diagnosis machine! i have had the alternator checked out as this was a suspect, it was fine.
is there anyone out there that has any clue what is going on with my car?
or has anybody had a similar problem?
any help would be really appreciated as i need to get it repaired and need to go the cheapest route using used parts if possible....? thanks