Hi,
I recently purchased an A6 (C5) 2.4 sport multitronic 2002 59k from a car supermarket and have had no other issues so far. I don't want to give them the car to look at at the moment, as my experience with intermittents is mechanics have it a couple of days and find nothing.
This morning I started the car from cold as normal and had been driving for just a couple of minutes when the ABS warning light came on, next thing all the warning indicators came on, and then I noticed the instruments all read zero - rev counter, speedo, oil temp, coolant temp, fuel, voltage - all zero. The engine had not stalled, it was still going and responded to my foot as normal (as far as I could tell.)
The next thing that happened was the air-con panel started flashing dull and normal alternately, accompanied by the fans going off an on.
I stopped, but as I was then still on quiet side roads proceded cautiously, after another couple of minutes driving like this all the instruments came back to normal. There were no further issues for the rest of the 1/2 hour journey.
The car was covered in condensation first thing this morning, so it could be a dampness thing, but any help or other user's experiences with this would be useful.
Thanks in advance.
I recently purchased an A6 (C5) 2.4 sport multitronic 2002 59k from a car supermarket and have had no other issues so far. I don't want to give them the car to look at at the moment, as my experience with intermittents is mechanics have it a couple of days and find nothing.
This morning I started the car from cold as normal and had been driving for just a couple of minutes when the ABS warning light came on, next thing all the warning indicators came on, and then I noticed the instruments all read zero - rev counter, speedo, oil temp, coolant temp, fuel, voltage - all zero. The engine had not stalled, it was still going and responded to my foot as normal (as far as I could tell.)
The next thing that happened was the air-con panel started flashing dull and normal alternately, accompanied by the fans going off an on.
I stopped, but as I was then still on quiet side roads proceded cautiously, after another couple of minutes driving like this all the instruments came back to normal. There were no further issues for the rest of the 1/2 hour journey.
The car was covered in condensation first thing this morning, so it could be a dampness thing, but any help or other user's experiences with this would be useful.
Thanks in advance.
, although the breakdown service tested the battery as fine, Audi had the car and as the problem was intermittent took a while to pinpoint but eventually identified a poor connection within the alternator, they repaired that and asked me to collect, when I got there the car wouldn't start!
