Among my other multiple small issues, display pixelation is one. 2001 A6, I'm going to try cleaning the contacts, since mine comes and goes about as often as the check engine light.[:@]

 

Hi Everyone.

Im new to the forum, and came across it by accident, so imagine my surprise when I saw this petition. I thought I was the only person with a clusterlight problem. I have a 2003 A6 2.4, and had the multitronic box replaced as it was shuddering and slipping when pulling away. When I got the car back I noticed that the left side of the gear indicator was completely dead(only showed gears 1-3). That means that after third gear, I have no idea what gear I'm in. Third gear is very dim, so on a verysunny day, Ican only see gears 1&2. It seriously sucks. But what I have found, is that somtimes when I change gears, they all light up briefly. This lead me to believe that when the dealership replaced the gearbox, there might have been a faulty microswitch on the gearlever that sends a signal to the display on the dash. The dealershipimmediately ruled that out and told me I have a defective dash lightcluster, and was very keen to sell me a new one right there and then..at my own expense of course. Needless to say I maintained that the problem only came upon the exchange of the gearbox, which it did. Theywanted nothing of that.

Well, I still cant see what gear I'm in, and here is the best... The car has gone in again for another gearbox change..same shuddering and slipping problem as before. It has not even covered 20 000km. I have in the meantime also met two blokes whose multitronic boxed suffered the same fate(Both of them own 2004 A4 2.0T's). Im really getting fed-up with this. Coupled to this , Ihave had toput up with the attitude of a nasty service advisor. With my previous 2 Audi's, it did notgo much better...one defect after the other. And the sad thing is, we pay our asses off for the parts and so-called first class sevice. I have yet to experience that after 4 years of troublesome Audi ownership. I'm looking high and low for a good reason to stay with Audi( and beautifull lines and hot performance figures on a spec sheet aint gonna cut it)

Would like to hearif any of you out there have experienced similar problems with "multi" boxes. Maybe we can start another petition on that topic.

 

i have a 2002 a6 im starting to have that problem too im with you all the way sign me up

 

put me down for that, my 01 a6 is missing some but after putting up with it for 2 years i can figure out what it says but anytime someone else gets in my car they have no clue. How do you turn the mfd off?

 

The sadest thing is the poor service. Not a lot of people at the dealership seemed to care, or tried to avoid rectifying the problem at Audi's expence. But there were plenty of sales people trying to sell me another vehicle. Look, I will be honest, I love my A6, but if this is the service i'm going to get, I might start looking elsewhere to invest my money.

 

yup, me too, on my 2000 A6 4.2, except when its really cold outside, then it seems to work fine.... Oddly enough, my '95 A6 Avant with 210k miles has no problems, nor my '98 A8 with 165k miles.... but then, every Audi I've owned or own has some kind of weird electrical gremlin happenings....

 

Another 1999 A6 to add to the list. Mine is readable, but I am missing 3 or 4 lines

 

mine was fine untill the 90 degree weather hit and now the top is all faded and the hole thing looks like its shifted up, the multiple screen that you can change around starts a little bellow half way not at bottom

 

Sign me up - I have a 02 TT. When I bought it, the car had 26,000 miles on it and no problems. After about 35k, I noticed a line or two gone and hoped it was justa fluke. Now with 40k on it, lines are in and out all the time. If thedisplay was like thatwhen I test drove it, I wouldnt have bought it.
Last week, my radio went out on me completely. One minute it was working fine. I pulled into to get gas, turned off the car, filled up, and when I turned it back on, the radio was blank. It's backlit, but no station display, CD player wont come on, cant turn it off. I'm hoping its just a fuse but who knows.

 

Same here - I am the proud owner of the original TT Roadster - 2000 owner after a three year wait. Only got a couple of lines - but am worried. While I am here - any body had a leak in their headlamp washer units?