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Hello All
One of my friends picked up an A4, on my recommendation of the Audi brand. She's had nothing but problems with it, which are as follows:
So basically, 2/3 times it starts ok, but when it doesn’t, it ticks over but doesn’t ‘fire up’ and a warning light comes up on the dash board. The most frequent icon is Brakes but others have come up. The garage have checked the various areas it has warned about and there are no issues so they believe it is an issue with the dashboard. They did get it sent off to a place that tests dashboards but the area that they wanted testing specifically, they couldn’t do for some reason, so nothing actually got solved, but the problem did sort for a while because he reckoned that it was a kind of reset. This lasted only a few weeks before it started happening again.
Often if you wait a while, take the key out, unlock and lock the car, the car will randomly start again ok.
Sometimes, the warning lights don’t come on but the car struggles to fire up. My brother in law says that it feels like there is a hole in the fuel pipe? Sometimes but not always, the car smells quite fuelley.
I get the feeling these are two separate issues. What do you think?
One of my friends picked up an A4, on my recommendation of the Audi brand. She's had nothing but problems with it, which are as follows:
So basically, 2/3 times it starts ok, but when it doesn’t, it ticks over but doesn’t ‘fire up’ and a warning light comes up on the dash board. The most frequent icon is Brakes but others have come up. The garage have checked the various areas it has warned about and there are no issues so they believe it is an issue with the dashboard. They did get it sent off to a place that tests dashboards but the area that they wanted testing specifically, they couldn’t do for some reason, so nothing actually got solved, but the problem did sort for a while because he reckoned that it was a kind of reset. This lasted only a few weeks before it started happening again.
Often if you wait a while, take the key out, unlock and lock the car, the car will randomly start again ok.
Sometimes, the warning lights don’t come on but the car struggles to fire up. My brother in law says that it feels like there is a hole in the fuel pipe? Sometimes but not always, the car smells quite fuelley.
I get the feeling these are two separate issues. What do you think?
