After six months with the e-tron, I've had a pretty bumpy road with it - two week-long stays in the shop for different CEL codes, and now, a couple new problems have developed.
1) "Shudder" at low speeds. When the car is creeping (either in D or R) with no gas applied, it now has a tendency to shudder - the drivetrain sort of vibrates. Seems to be related to the EV side of it, not gas. Has progressively gotten worse over the past month or so, and I've booked another service appointment for them to check it out. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen consistently, so there's a good chance I'll be told they can't reproduce and send me on my way.
2) This is a weird one - I can't turn off the AC, seemingly. The light on the AC button turns on and off as it should, but even when off, I get the notice in MMI that air conditioning is reducing my range. Maybe a bug? Can't tell. Don't notice any difference in HVAC performance, temperature, or odor when the system is on or off, so it's very hard to know whether the AC is actually turning on and off as it should.
And here's an even weirder one (although it's so trivial, I don't actually consider it a problem): one time on a road trip, the blue lights on the two temperature dials both went out. No other lights were affected. Only happened once for about two hours. What makes it so strange to me is that it couldn't be that a single LED was defective or burnt out, because both dials were affected. But why in the world would those two blue lights be on a separate circuit from the rest of the lighting in that area of the console? Bizarre!
1) "Shudder" at low speeds. When the car is creeping (either in D or R) with no gas applied, it now has a tendency to shudder - the drivetrain sort of vibrates. Seems to be related to the EV side of it, not gas. Has progressively gotten worse over the past month or so, and I've booked another service appointment for them to check it out. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen consistently, so there's a good chance I'll be told they can't reproduce and send me on my way.
2) This is a weird one - I can't turn off the AC, seemingly. The light on the AC button turns on and off as it should, but even when off, I get the notice in MMI that air conditioning is reducing my range. Maybe a bug? Can't tell. Don't notice any difference in HVAC performance, temperature, or odor when the system is on or off, so it's very hard to know whether the AC is actually turning on and off as it should.
And here's an even weirder one (although it's so trivial, I don't actually consider it a problem): one time on a road trip, the blue lights on the two temperature dials both went out. No other lights were affected. Only happened once for about two hours. What makes it so strange to me is that it couldn't be that a single LED was defective or burnt out, because both dials were affected. But why in the world would those two blue lights be on a separate circuit from the rest of the lighting in that area of the console? Bizarre!
