sakimano

I ask because they use a bunch of water when tinting windows, and sometimes it gets where it's not supposed to and causes shorts. A friend had trouble finding a shop to tint his S5 because they've apparently got tons of wiring etc. just under the rear window, and some tint shops know this and that they're extra delicate, thus don't want to work on them.

Ren Hoek

Have a 2010 Q5 with same problem. Sound is completely dead. This car has the Bang Olufsen radio upgrade. (wonder if that's the issue.)

Everything was fine then one day: no sound, no bluetooth. Volume **** works and when lowered, display shows mute symbol. Phone still links to car but with no audible sound it's useless.

Saw reboot sequence in link, selected MMI Reset to Default but it didn't work. My car has the computer mounted on the dash and the 3 button procedure does not "reboot" the MMI it just allows you to "reset to default" settings. Tried it, but no luck.

I am still without sound. Any one have any ideas or does the the amp need replacing?

Grommet

Hi Ren, Sorry to hear hear your no sound problem but it sounds like the same issue I had with even the mute symbol showing on display. Your still under warranty and Audi will know right away if it's the amp. Let us all know what the final verdict is.

LMcQueen

Do your parking sensors beep? I also recall something about the spare time in the trunk having speaker wires nearby. Perhaps check in the back to see if there's something loose.

AudiTech

If your vehicles under warranty why not take it to the dealership? Im not sure why a lot of you guys tamper with your vehicles when its under warranty. If one day you do decide to take your vehicle into a dealership and the tech finds out that certain things have been tampered with warranty will not accept the repairs. But I'm sure you guys know this.

Ren Hoek

So I had to succumb and bring the car in. Dealer states it was an "update to the B & O sound system". I did get a car wash and license plate holders out of it.

Why I dislike bringing the car to the dealer?...Yes the car is covered by the dealer. The dealer is a crafty individual who was given the right to sell a car line that was designed, engineered, crafted and assembled by intelligent people. Dealers are simply middlemen who look to gouge you for as much as they possibly can. They take new cars and drive them to and fro from their homes or on weekend trips, then park them back on the lot and sell them as "new" with 100 to 300 miles. They mask all defects and body work on new cars and won't tell you they are damaged in transit but instead pawn them off to unsuspecting buyers as new meanwhile, if you buy it from them drive around the block and want to trade it in it's considered "used" and they take off 30% of its value. On the flip side, while my service visit was free to me, it wasn't free to Audi. Some has to reimburse the "Dealer(crooks) for what will probably be overbilled back to audi. In fact looking at the invoice they have managed to fill the page with "check all fluids" "top off windshield washer" one line reads "customer request Check tire pressure" I never requested any such thing, but when they slip audi a $450 bill for the "work" they performed they'll have to justify the time spent on the car. In reality, with an OBD hookup this could have been rectified from Audi in Germany in minutes. I didn't even need the dealership. Dealers are quite simply liars, cheats, crooks who perpetrate fraud on a daily basis trying to elevate themselves to the level of Doctors with their "appointments" and "waiting rooms" They look at people who walk through their doors as lolipops with the word "sucker" emblazoned across their foreheads. They keep you away from the work not for insurance regulations, but because what they do is quite simply not very impressive. Audi Germany impresses me.

The problem with all this, there are many: the dealer bilking Audi means Audi has to charge us, the consumer, more money to cover the bogus costs and bills submitted by dealers. Audi has come so close to making a fantastic product that really requires little servicing its a testament to good engineering it must pain them to see so many invoices for bogus work. In order to substantiate their existence dealers will one day bill Audi for " I did open the driver door to get into the seat and look at the instrument cluster".

If trumped up charges aren't bad enough how about it's a crying shame that we as Americans have simply become the lacky grease monkeys to real auto makers while our own automakers (who farm out 50-60% of the manufacturing of "Domestic cars") can't even make a product people want. While GM was busy telling us how it was still the #1 car makers in the world, Toyota was blowing past it like a '70 LS4 Chevelle next to Yugo. While GM kept maintaining it was the #1 automaker, it not only fell to #2 but it went bankrupt. Helping all this were the dealerships that GM had to pump money to when they closed Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn. Here in NY some guy McNamara was billing GM for work on cars that didn't exist. He created Vin #s and cost GM millions in fraudulent "repairs".

If you eliminated dealerships my Audi would probably cost 30% less.

Albeit I drive an Audi I would like to think that one day this country will produce vehicles (that will probably hover by then) that people will want to drive/fly and that are on or near the caliber in engineering of my Audi, but with dealerships doing what they do, the math and science programs of our schools being what they are, and basically in a country where laziness is condoned, a lack of engineers is tolerated, and greed and deceit is rewarded, this won't happen until things change.

Sorry to bum us all out but its time everyone wakes up smells the coffee (farmed and cultivated in arabia or columbia for 10cents, and only brewed here for a markup of $5.75) and gets us back on track to create leaders who push the boundaries and recreate a manufacturing base, not lackies who somehow make careers out of putting paper car mats on the carpets and filling the tires of my designed, engineered, built "foreign" car.

Ren