OT; Audi TT faulty gauges
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off topic I'm afraid lads but perhaps one or two of you could help.

My wife has a TT which has developed a fault with the fuel gauge. The warning light came on just under half a tank on Wednesday but as the gauge was reading high she chose to ignore it. Well I then got a call from her last night while I was in the pub to tell me she had run out of petrol on the M8. After laughing a bit, I got some petrol down to her in a taxi. I've tried to suggestion that maybe she should just put petrol in it when the light comes on but apparently thats not good enough! She is now convinced the car is a constant problem and its up to me to sort it!

Now on full tank, the needle is sitting way passed the full mark. I spoke to my local audi specialist who has advised its likley to be a fault with the instrument pod and is quite common. He has also suggested taking it to Audi and arguing for an FOC replacement from them. Its either that or a replacement pod at £500 or an unguaranteed repair for £150

anyone else had any experiences??

what is the ungarenteed repair? sounds like there may be a modification they can do as £150 is probably just labour?

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

more than likely re-calibration i would have said.

Don't know if this helps - from honestjohn.co.uk

"Check the instruments carefully as a new dashpod is £900. Dashpods seem to fail regularly on older cars and cost £690 - £900 to replace. Particularly check for faced LCD/LED odometer readouts. Audi will pay up for UK sourced cars up to 5 years old and independent imports up to two and a half years old. "

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/index.htm?md=21

This was a recall on the TT i think.. the dash pods / gauges are a known issue.

car is a 2003 so maybe it will come under the audi free replacement

apparently the repair involves replacing a 'chip or something'

looks like youll have to bite the bullet and ring audi.

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

Hi,
Phone Audi, they don't charge £90 p/h to pick up the phone do they?
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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if anything you could get a diagnostics on costing £35 to tell you what the problem is

I'd say thats a good start, get your mate with the VAGCOM to plug it in and see if any errors are thrown out.

plugged vagcom in last night but didn't come up with anything.

spoke to the guy that has the unit next door to me this afternoon and he had the same problem with his 2000 model last year. He got it fixed foc at Audi after a bit of banter.

looks like a visit to the local dealer on Monday then!

you may find that some diagnostic kits will not pick up the fault, i had a major prob with my renault years ago, renault could not find the fault, went to the average jo's who picked it up straight away

we're using genuine vag diagnositics which haven't let us down in the past - mind you, it will be some monkey in Audi trying to interpret the results!

You say half-a-tank indication is empty and full is way past the full mark..
So fill up, take the needle off and stick it back pointing to full lol