hi all, i have a 03 laguna dci with the tunerlist cd player. After entering the code the error msg shows up on dash. it does the same in my brothers 2001 clio 1.2. The error msg always shows up whenever i switch the stereo on now! I have an aftermarket cd player which works in brothers car but not mine! Am i meant to press button 5 ater entering code, to actually 'enter it'? help!
stereo model is: RENRDW100-10, i dont have the owners manual at present, but does anyone know what fuse is for the car stereo loom (the one attached to cars dash) as i get a '0' reading on all wires with a multimeter, even when ignition is switched on! I really need my music!! cheers
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Hi All,

Unfortunately someone rear-ended my 7 month old A3 S-line in June of this year. They hit me at about 20mph I would say. I was able to drive the car to the Audi dealer, and the next thing I knew, it was at the "approved" Audi repairer for the region.

Now this Audi repairer is allegedly one of only 20 garages that is approved to repair an R8, so they should be able to get it right. Unfortunately not.

I picked the car up 4 weeks ago (my 4th attempt to collect the car in 4 days as there were various bits wrong it it), and found various things wrong with it, from the bootlid not fitting correctly, through to trim not put back properly, through to dents in my leather seats, and worst of all, swirl marks all over the black paint from being washed with something that had grit in it. Even the satnav screen and the clocks were covered in scratches. Where the car had been machine polished, the polish has not been broken down fully and the car is now covered in holograms.

I didn't sign anything to say I was happy with the repair, but I wasn't asked to either. I was told to drive the car around for a week or two and come back to them with any outstanding issues.

They had the car back two weeks later along with a 13 point list, and it was collected again yesterday. Pretty much most of the things on the list have been ignored.

Where the bootlid meets the light clusters, the bootlid is proud on one side, but worse than that, where the back end of the car was "spread" outwards, the gaps between the bootlid and the sides is much wider than it should be! So basically it hasn't been closed up properly. So where they have replaced the rear cross-member, it has now been re-welded in the incorrect position.

I was told by the repairer that I shouldn't expect the bootlid to line up properly - not even on a new car! And as for the scratches on the clocks, well it wasn't them of course! Even though they did valet the car afterwards.

With that in mind, I went to the Audi dealer that the car came from, and they were very helpful. The service manager agreed with me that the car is not up to the correct standard and that I should write to them and CC Audi H/O exaplining this. I called Audi Customer Services last night and am awaiting a callback from a case manager there.

Now me being the pessimist, and also extremely fastidious about the vehicle in every way (I won't even park it in a car park if there are too many other cars around), I am quite sure this isn't going to be resolved to my satisfaction. As far as I am concerned, the car should come back as it was before the accident. Which clearly it is not.

My possible only trump card is that the car is on PCP. I am so sick and tired of this (this has been going on for 3 months now), and quite frankly, as a self employed consultant, I am losing more money every time I waste time on this.

Fortunately I did not sell my old faithful VW Passat. I am inclined to go back to driving the passat and telling them that I am stopping the direct debit and telling Audi UK to come and take back the car?

I would argue that through no fault of my own, the car is no longer of the originally described quality when I purchased it, and this goes far beyond any wear and tear that it would have amassed in the 7 months I have been driving it?

Can anyone offer any advice as to how this would hold up? I don't want to knacker my credit rating by "defaulting" on payments, but I don't see why i should have been paying the last three months payments for hire cars that aren't of equivalent spec, nor paying for a substandard car going forwards?

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Hello,
Recently i have been having problems with the lights on the dash board of my Zafira, it is a rather funny situation because other lights seem to be working fine (e.g. the gear box lights and surounding the sterio). My thinking was that is was to do with the battery, soo i replaced it with a new one and yet the lights are still rather dull on the display. I really have no idea to the solution and was wondering if it was a loose wire? Any help on this matter would be very much appreciated.

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Where can I get a good air gun and welder from? Can anyone point me in the right direction...would the screwfix ones be a good bet? I need it for general work on my motorcycle, and it would be a whole lot easier with this.

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