Afternoon all,
On the weekend, I swapped cars with my bro so I could go and pick the wife and kids up from her mums in Oxford. He's got a new A180 CDI and it only made sense, seen as though it does 65mpg!
Anyways, got a call from him late Saturday afternoon, saying that he's had to call the AA and in turn they've called for a recovery truck. He told me whilst in slow moving traffic, the gears had locked up and the car had stalled. Initially, it wouldn't let him release the key either - but he said once he had switched the ignition off, put his foot on the brake pedal, it allowed him to shift to P and release the key.
As soon as I got back home last night, I went to the Indy specialist it had been recovered to see what's what.
When I put my key in, everything seems normal - but it won't start. Not even a sound. I'm able to move the gear lever - but it sticks in D - on the way up from S. I have to then turn the ignition off and on again, which allows me to move the lever back up to P and release the key. Also, the PRNDS lights on the dashboard are flashing.
Whilst away, I did a bit of googling and there's one thing that matches the symptoms - a safety mechanism, which is caused by a movement of the lever, whilst the car is moving - which in turn causes a a pin to lock the system up??
As you can imagine, I'm bricking the outcome of all this. Hopefully, it's the DSG hardware rather than the mechatronics/software issue. He's sticking it on the VCDS tomorrow and see what he can find. Has anyone here or know of anyone to encounter this problem?
