hi there this is my first post on this forum although have been looking at it since i got my car (september) and have found some very useful things on here so keep up the good work.
any way i have an a3 8p 2004 2.0fsi and it has decided to just go wrong on me. basically it needed a new battery so i replaced this. straight after it was replaced all the dash lights up with the esp light, engine management light and the little steering wheel light i was so excited to see these as you can imagine after hearing so much about them on here. any way so i take to a vag expert and he plugs it in to try and clear the faults but they would not clear. so he looks into it a bit more and tells me that for some reason the car has lost alot of common settings contained in the sensors and they will have to be all reprogrammed.
now the thing is i have done many searches on here for this problem as didnt want to waste any ones time and could not find any thing like this. so was wondering if any one could tell me weather or not it will be just the settings or do u think that the sensors are all knackered. the only reason i say this is beacause the battery went flat i jumped it and thought may be it could have surged and ruined all my senors ? and also has any one ever come across this as i dont want it to happen every time the battery has to be disconnected ?
it is booked in this week to be reprogrammed but i can see there being more to it than that.
any help would be great sorry for the long post just wanted to cover everyting. cheers ross.
any way i have an a3 8p 2004 2.0fsi and it has decided to just go wrong on me. basically it needed a new battery so i replaced this. straight after it was replaced all the dash lights up with the esp light, engine management light and the little steering wheel light i was so excited to see these as you can imagine after hearing so much about them on here. any way so i take to a vag expert and he plugs it in to try and clear the faults but they would not clear. so he looks into it a bit more and tells me that for some reason the car has lost alot of common settings contained in the sensors and they will have to be all reprogrammed.
now the thing is i have done many searches on here for this problem as didnt want to waste any ones time and could not find any thing like this. so was wondering if any one could tell me weather or not it will be just the settings or do u think that the sensors are all knackered. the only reason i say this is beacause the battery went flat i jumped it and thought may be it could have surged and ruined all my senors ? and also has any one ever come across this as i dont want it to happen every time the battery has to be disconnected ?
it is booked in this week to be reprogrammed but i can see there being more to it than that.
any help would be great sorry for the long post just wanted to cover everyting. cheers ross.