Parking brake fault message

[rich_16]

Ive been getting the warning message below appearing in yellow on the dashboard intermittently. Problem is it won’t do it when I take it into Audi and although it logs that the warning has occurred they can’t diagnose the fault hence cannot authorise a repair.

“Parking brake fault contact workshop”

Has anyone had anything similar with their parking brake?

I’ve left it with them for a few days to see if they can get the fault to appear but if not I plan to escalate to Audi UK to authorise a repair as it seems ridiculous that they can log a fault but take no steps to fix it. Am I being unreasonable?

 

[cuke2u]

Not with the parking brake, but with park on the stronic gearbox...

 

[RussM]

I had this a few times, again like you it was intermittent. Car went in for its first service yesterday and I mentioned it, there was no rebuke. On the service sheet they said they had put a software update in, not sure if this was connected or not, but has been ok since, I’ll reply here if it’s not sorted and take the car back in again.

 

[rich_16]

Thanks that's good to know. I would have thought my local dealer (Reading) would have tried that but I'll mention it to them.

 

[rich_16]

Audi finally diagnosed the fault. It was a faulty battery so quite an easy fix. Seems fine so far so fingers crossed.

It felt great getting back into my car after a week in the Q2 loaner. Made me glad I specified adaptive comfort suspension on the A4 as the Q2 was a bit firm!