i have a 2000, 225 audi tt, which has an intermittant problem with the esp and abs lights coming on. they go off when i stop and switch the engine off/on. any ideas would be great.

 

A little trick I read somewhere has worked for me: Lock and unlock your door with the key. Apparently it resets the electronics. I always use my remote, but working the locks manually has corrected that problem.

 

i tried the reset and it made no difference. i purchased a vag-com lead off e-bay, eventually got it to work with windows vista (took me ages), and it told me my longitudinal acceleration sensor was implausible.

i read somewhere that this is located behind the side dash on the passenger side of the tt. anyone else had the same probs??

 

my esp fix thread talked about this...mine was that the esp light stayed on and the code i got was latteral acceleration sensor located under steering wheel....ordered new part from worldimpex for around 140 bucks and replaced it....now it works fine...there is a latteral and the longitudinal i believe the latteral is under the steering wheel

 

ive found it.......its behind the side dash on the passenger side, think they moved the location in 2002. pulled the wires and the fault was there. all i need to do now is buy a spare. ( uk)

 

its a 2000 TT? isnt that a 180 hp TT and not the 225?

 

no its a 225ttc

 

It sounds like you fixed the problem, so just for others who may actually use the search function and find this thread when they have a simillar problem, I had both the esp and abs lights coming on intermittently as well, my problem was with the drivers side rear abs sensor