Originally Posted by shokhead

I'm sure glad I do not have the start-stop system for several reasons now.

Originally Posted by Ancientbr

Car returned from dealer today after 60k (kms) /4 year service ( though has only done 38k) . I detailed problem with dealer and fact that it is occurring every week when engine is warm. Surprise, surprise diagnostics revealed no faults. So back to square one. dealer has suggested that i take car in for a check of transmission next week - another A$300-. So will try but am not hopeful. Fault occurs when I come to a full stop/foot on brake and doesn't seem to make any difference if auto engine switch off is disabled or not. So car is in drive and won't engage gears when I pull away- the engine just revs as if the clutch is engaged. To resolve this I have to put car into P and then back into D/S - meanwhile cars behind are somewhat annoyed as to why I am sitting there not moving - always seems to happen at traffic lights!. This is the only fault with the car and now, for all journeys I disable the auto function and when stopping I place foot lightly on brakes so i can feel the transmission engage . Await further developments!

Originally Posted by Ancientbr

OK. car returned from its follow up check. I wasn't overly optimistic that they would be able to fix this . However, a check of the wiring harness revealed that there was a fault in the wiring connectors between the engine ECU and the Transmission ( ECU ?) . Apparently this caused a drop in resistance when the brake pedal was released and the car accelerated from a standstill. This required replacement of the relevant part of the wiring harness.- cheap ( around US$45, but 3 +hours labour. ) I was told by my dealer ( in Melbourne, Australia ) that a TPI had been raised - which I believe is Audi speak for a request for a fix from Audi's global dealers reporting this problem . So if that is the case then any dealer should be able to obtain the information a to how to remedy this. Of course, the car has only been back a few days so this may still be a problem. I have been running it with the stop/start engaged and it does seem to require more pressure on the accelerator to move off from standstill and there is a slight hesitancy before forward movement is achieved. But so far so good. I would add that, after initially telling me that they would charge me for this repair , ( car is now 1 year out of warranty ) I told them that I had reported this at the last 2 annual services and that nothing had been found. I was then phoned 30 mins later to say that the work would be done free as a " goodwill" gesture.