I bought a new RS6 in 2021 , it has now 32,000 miles on it and have extended the warranty.
Last week a yellow battery warning lamp came on together with a yellow Sport Diff problem, being 2 miles from home I carried on looked in the manual and contacted my dealer, as instructed.
They booked the car in for examination in 3 weeks so I continued to drive the car. On my final journey the Air con stopped working but approaching a motorway junction up hill the battery warning lamp changed to red, the gearbox drive disengaged and the car was electrcally dead. No handbrake, no electric windows could not get out oif the car being on a slope. There was no warning just immediate failure and no drive. It turns out the Starter / Generator had failed to charge the battery so that ran down running all the electronics leaving the car dead. If this had happened on the motorway we could be toast. Considering for the last 100 years when the charging system fails on a car a red light would show, how is that Audi with all its sophistication cannot warrn the driver that the battery is not being charged and the driver has X minutes of driving and needs to find a safe parking zone? This issue is the subject of a $5m Class Action in the USA, when are Audi owners in Europe going to get a fix?
Starter/ Generator Failure
Discussion forum for ICE, Security, SatNav, etc....
-
- Neutral
- Posts: 8
- Joined: Fri Jun 14, 2013 4:24 pm
Jump to
- General Discussion Forums
- ↳ Welcome Area
- ↳ General Car Chat
- ↳ Trackdays and Meets
- ↳ Spotters Forum
- ↳ Adversaries
- ↳ BMW M & Alpina
- ↳ Jaguar R
- ↳ Mercedes-AMG
- ↳ Nissan GT-R
- ↳ Opel VXR & HSV
- ↳ McLaren
- ↳ Porsche
- ↳ Toyota 86 / Toyota GT-86 / Subaru BRZ / Scion FR-S
- ↳ Volvo S60 Polestar
- ↳ Other
- ↳ Audi S and RS Ownership
- ↳ DTC / VCDS
- ↳ Audi Tuning and Modifications
- ↳ Electrical
- ↳ Cleaning & Car Care
- ↳ Readers' Rides
- ↳ Off Topic Chat
- ↳ Site News, Issues, and Suggestions
- ↳ Classifieds - For Sale / Wanted
- ↳ Cars
- ↳ Parts
- ↳ Group Buys
- ↳ Other
- ↳ Ads Up To End Of 2010
- Audi RS & R Discussion Forums
- ↳ RS2 (B4) 1994-1995
- ↳ RS3 (8PA) 2011-2012
- ↳ RS3 (8VA) 2015-
- ↳ TTRS / TTRS Plus (Mk2 Typ 8J) 2006–2014
- ↳ TTRS (Mk3 Typ 8S) 2014–
- ↳ RS4 (B5 Typ 8D) 1999-2001
- ↳ RS4 (B7 Typ 8E) 2006–2008
- ↳ RS4 (B8 Typ 8K) 2012-2016
- ↳ RS4 (B9 Typ 8W) 2017-
- ↳ RS5 (8T) 2010–2015
- ↳ RS5 (F5) 2016–
- ↳ RS6 / RS6 plus (C5 Typ 4B) 2002-2004
- ↳ RS6 / RS6 Plus (C6 Typ 4F) 2008-2010
- ↳ RS6 (C7 Typ 4G) 2013-2018
- ↳ RS6 (C8 Typ 5G) 2019-
- ↳ RS7 (4G) 2013-2019
- ↳ RS7 (C8) 2019-
- ↳ RS Q3 (Typ 8U) 2013-
- ↳ R8 Coupé / Spyder (Typ 42) 2007-
- ↳ RS e-tron GT (J1) 2020-
- Audi S Discussion Forums
- ↳ S Forums (Up to 1997)
- ↳ S1
- ↳ S2
- ↳ S4 2.2 / S4 4.2
- ↳ S6 / S6 Plus
- ↳ S1 (Typ 8X) 2014-
- ↳ S3 (Typ 8L) 1999-2003
- ↳ S3 (Typ 8P) 2006-2012
- ↳ S3 (Typ 8V) 2013-
- ↳ TTS (Typ 8J) 2008-2014
- ↳ TTS (Typ 8S) 2014-
- ↳ S4 (B5 Typ 8D) 1997-2002
- ↳ S4 (B6 Type 8E/8H) 2003-2005 / (B7 Typ 8E/8H) 2005-2009
- ↳ S4 (B8 Typ 8K) 2009-2016
- ↳ S4 (B9 Typ 9L) 2017-
- ↳ S5 (B8 Typ 8T) / (B8.5 Typ 8.5T) 2007-2017
- ↳ S5 (B9) 2017-
- ↳ S6 (C5 Typ 4B) 1999-2003
- ↳ S6 (C6 Typ 4F) 2006-2011
- ↳ S6 (C7 Typ 4G) 2012-2018
- ↳ S6 (C8) 2019-
- ↳ S7 (Typ 4G) 2012-2017
- ↳ S8 (D2 Typ 4D) 1992-2002
- ↳ S8 (D3 Typ 4E) 2002-2009
- ↳ S8 (D4 Typ 4H) 2010-
- Audi S & RS SUV Discussion Forums
- ↳ SQ2 (MQB) 2019-
- ↳ SQ5 (Typ 8R) 2013-2017
- ↳ SQ5 (Typ FY) 2017-
- ↳ SQ7 (Typ 4M) 2016-
- ↳ SQ8 (MLB) 2019-
- ↳ Circuit Days
- ↳ Destination Nurburgring
- ↳ EM Tuning Products
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 14 guests