The switch is in the boot catch in the bootlid. Its a microswitch actuated by the catch via a little piece of plastic which occasionally breaks, or the microswitch fails in the 'boot open' position, although you do get the warning on the DIS that the boot is open when that happens. The usual ...

OK, thanks both, a job for better weather, can I spray anything in to help in the meanwhile?
I've had that door apart (a few years ago now) to replace a broken window mechanism (whole top section from A8parts and swap the glass!) so at least I know how to get in there. :mrgreen:


A bit of white ...

HEX-CAN works up to about 2018 I think, latest I've tried it on is 2014. For later stuff the HEX-NET is needed as the protocols changed beyond what the HEX-CAN dongle could cope with.

Yeah exactly ^ The problem is the catch itself siezes up in the housing due to either the grease getting hard and gumming it up, or corrosion inside the plastic-coated metal parts expanding them so they don't move freely any more. Several of mine do the same thing.

Its usually possible at this ...

So RWD versions rather than the 24A. I wonder if there is a difference in the valve body that makes them more susceptible to that failure. I've never seen or heard of it in an Audi application, but then I mostly don't touch failed gearboxes - I just stack them up in a pile in the workshop to rebuild ...

Take the engine and gearbox out together on the subframe if you have to. Its far easier like that than trying to get the gearbox out on axle stands. Buy/borrow a pallet truck and you can lower the subframe on to it and then wheel the whole assembly out.
Take the engine off the gearbox using an ...

Interesting, I've never seen that happen before.

HPsauce wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 6:12 pm what, if anything, replaced them

Yeah I noticed its back up again, still listed as an FE even though he knows it isn't :roll:

Makes you wonder what kind of lunatics were bidding on it thinking it was a good running car looking at the pictures! Tide mark in the passenger footwell, gearbox in limp mode, engine bay that looks like ...

Crikey. thats pretty much guaranteed to kill off the remaining few D2s then :(

Not sure if this has any impact on your way ahead, but this parts car sold for £5329 at the weekend :shock: Whether its a real sale or not, time will tell, but there were two accounts fighting over it for most of the ...