Q7 Rear Heated Seat Retrofit

Q7 rear heat controller

  My 08 Q7 doesn’t have cold weather package=> no rear heated seats. I heard in the forums that rear seats were prewired with heat elements and all we need is the 4zone AC controller, but I was wrong. I bought the controller with Heated Seat buttons, replaced it and it doesn’t see the temperature

Add-On Components And Avoid CP (Component Protection) MMI 2G

I added the Navigation DVD, TV tuner, Rear AC Controller on the Q7 and I did not get the CP (component protection) which causes the component NOT to work, audio, etc because I didn’t add them in the Head Unit registry. The hardware works automatically without adding them in the Head Unit/Gateway. People who own

$70k Disposable Car

Disposable: designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up. I found this old post and I just thought of re-post it with update information. Last few weeks, I took the A8, myself took a trip to Reno for some conferences. It’s been a long time since I drove the

Parking Aids Problems A8L

2006+ parking module location

When the parking sensors are getting old, the wiring is not very reliable. System throws codes. There are 4 sensors front/rear and control module – dependent upon your year 2006+ or 2005- the locations are different. Graphical interface parking module =

A8L Suspension Pump Retrofit

A8L Air Pump

All A8 D3 Air Pump will fail during its lifetime ~100k+ miles. Wabco is the original company for this pump. Someone found out that Mercedes pump is being sold cheaper than the Audi Pump for some reasons. Someone also swap the Mercedes pump to run Audi Allroad which may also work for Audi A8 D3.