A4Mike
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Hi all.
Looking for any advice/tech info please.
We have recently bought our first Audi, (April) 2008 (PD engine I believe) A4 Avant Quattro, 2.0 Tdi 170bhp. Unfortunately it has been very much an anticlimax for us
Several minor niggles, one of which is the rear electric windows work very randomly. Sometimes go down, but then don't go up. Most of time don't even do down. It's both at the same time that don't work too, not just one. Garage will be investigating further.
The main issue is the drive and engine performance. Is this engine model known for bad turbo lag? Seem to get a bit of a kick around 2500 rpm, especially in 2nd gear. 5th and 6th have very little pull in them at all. Even cruising at 60 in 6th, it's needed to drop to 4th to get any kind of 'oomph' for over-taking. We also have a 1.8 Td mondeo 125bhp which doesn't need the drop in gears and just picks up power as needed, so thought the A4 would be at least as good if not better than this!
Since its purchase a few weeks back, the glow plug light has come on flashing and car gone into what I now know to be, limp mode. An engine switch off and restart has cleared this and car drives normal. First time it happendc the garage put diagnostics on and it came up with a code he said he hadn't seen before with reference to 'turbo boost pressure range not reached'. Although he hasn't seen this before, he believes it happens due to possibly being in too high a gear and putting the foot down. ie slowing almost to a stop at a junction in 2nd gear, then pulling off without going into 1st? The 2nd time it happened, I had slowed down to around 20mph for a car turning off the road and I was in 3rd... Rather than drop to 2nd, I just applied power (as id always have done in the mondeo with no issues) and the car coughed and spluttered and again, went into limp mode with the flashing glow plug coil on the dash. We pulled in, switched off the engine and restarted. Car ran fine again! Surely this isn't normal and a little more forgiveness should be allowed for being in too high a gear now and then, without then having to pull over to restart the car?!
Sorry for the long winded post, but any advice or info would be greatly appreciated. If it turns out to be a major issue, I would be inclined to look into just handing the car back (having done a little research into the sale of goods act through independent car dealerships)
Many thanks,
Mike
Looking for any advice/tech info please.
We have recently bought our first Audi, (April) 2008 (PD engine I believe) A4 Avant Quattro, 2.0 Tdi 170bhp. Unfortunately it has been very much an anticlimax for us
Several minor niggles, one of which is the rear electric windows work very randomly. Sometimes go down, but then don't go up. Most of time don't even do down. It's both at the same time that don't work too, not just one. Garage will be investigating further.
The main issue is the drive and engine performance. Is this engine model known for bad turbo lag? Seem to get a bit of a kick around 2500 rpm, especially in 2nd gear. 5th and 6th have very little pull in them at all. Even cruising at 60 in 6th, it's needed to drop to 4th to get any kind of 'oomph' for over-taking. We also have a 1.8 Td mondeo 125bhp which doesn't need the drop in gears and just picks up power as needed, so thought the A4 would be at least as good if not better than this!
Since its purchase a few weeks back, the glow plug light has come on flashing and car gone into what I now know to be, limp mode. An engine switch off and restart has cleared this and car drives normal. First time it happendc the garage put diagnostics on and it came up with a code he said he hadn't seen before with reference to 'turbo boost pressure range not reached'. Although he hasn't seen this before, he believes it happens due to possibly being in too high a gear and putting the foot down. ie slowing almost to a stop at a junction in 2nd gear, then pulling off without going into 1st? The 2nd time it happened, I had slowed down to around 20mph for a car turning off the road and I was in 3rd... Rather than drop to 2nd, I just applied power (as id always have done in the mondeo with no issues) and the car coughed and spluttered and again, went into limp mode with the flashing glow plug coil on the dash. We pulled in, switched off the engine and restarted. Car ran fine again! Surely this isn't normal and a little more forgiveness should be allowed for being in too high a gear now and then, without then having to pull over to restart the car?!
Sorry for the long winded post, but any advice or info would be greatly appreciated. If it turns out to be a major issue, I would be inclined to look into just handing the car back (having done a little research into the sale of goods act through independent car dealerships)
Many thanks,
Mike
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