Recent content by aj84

If I remember correctly, you can check the battery too: MODULE 19 (CAN-GETAWAY) Measure Blocks>Select GROUPS 18,19 AND 20 I'm sure there is a SOC value too but its been a while since I've had a VCDS or even a non-EV car!

Lets get a scan uploaded and go from there. I have seen when these cars light up like a Christmas tree, its ended up being the battery at fault

Certainly does sound like the ballast. Quite a few similar threads on here and other forums usually indicating ballast/igniter Are you able to try swapping them and testing?

No probs! I forget how much of a minefield it can be to new owners - I've been driving Audis since 2008 and changing quite frequently everytime Audi give me a loan car better than my own so you get to know the systems well. Used to have a 2015 FL A7 which is the one your model essentially...

Why not just change displays ? the left/right arrows on the left of your steering wheel will cycle through the various views - one of this is navigation. From memory, you have the trip computer, phone, radio, navigation. On another note, I think the navigation in the cluster is brilliant

Sorry for the late reply - this is how I did it ... not saying its the right way but my audi contact at the time essentially confirmed thats what they do in the workshop I remember I had a dud battery then too so I was bricking it but it went through fine. I take no responsibility if it goes...

From memory when I did my A7 at the time, I used the battery terminals under the bonnet - I suspect yours will have them there too given not much changed in terms of the battery being under the boot floor. I don't remember it taking so long for maps but it has been a while since I used that...

How long have you been trying for? MyAudi is extremely flaky at the best of times! I'm in the UK and in most cases it will run fine for weeks and then be down with various errors for a day or two and then go back to working

Welcome! Great choice - I didn't have any experience with the Pre-factlift A7 but did with the factlift (2015) and to date is still one of my only missed cars I've had! Symptoms you've had are classic battery so you should be ok now given alternator is tested ok - I suppose you could dig deeper...

I too would say SQ5! I got into an SQ5 2018 TFSI - one of the last lot before they moved them to Diesel and it was a fantastic car. Spec-wise being SQ5, it is already by default fairly high so it had front / rear parking + cameras, auto, auto lights/wipers, from memory bose sound but might...

Usually queries like yours I go into the brochure for that year and looking at the 2019, I can only see 18-21"

Sorry can't help as I have neither a Q7 or had this issue but as it is under warranty ...use it :) Maybe another option would be to test drive another Q7 and see if this works better? I did see similar issues on one of the forums (maybe this) where at worst case, it was the steering rack...

Also they don't always pop out to wash....it's once every X amount of times of pulling the windscreen washer stalk in

What type of lights do you have? As far as I know, unless it's standard halogen yellow type lighting, the washers would be a requirement. Easiest thing would be is pop them out. I used one of those suction cups you get ...like the phone holder ones for the windscreen but smaller. Be strange...

Ideally you need to get the car scanned to see if there is more information logged. Reason I mentioned battery is I had this issue with my A7 back in the day and it was indeed the battery