Recoding keys needed for gearbox work on A4??
 

Hi Guys n Gals
Well after nearly 3 weeks there is a vicious roumer that my A4 is almost ready to collect from its repairfest at Audi - part of the work was replacing first and second synchromesh gears on the manual gearbox and I am being told that they need to re-code all my keys . . . so bring along the spare ones when you come.
Why would they need to recode the keys for manual gearbox work?? :Confused:

Bump! no views? Ben? anyone?
*brushwood rolls across the roads* . . . . . :rolleyes:

Smells a bit fishy to me... Maybe they've reflashed some ECUs and made an arse of keeping the key codes.

Or you're getting someone else's car :)

... or they muddled your key up, and want a spare one so they can find your original :ROFL:

Defo sounds fishy to me.... !

Well I've been in this morning and picked up the car but I had to wait a while to get the other spare keys re-coded. When the car went in it was fine and the key remote unlocked the car but since they worked on it the key fob remote had stopped unlocking the car :Confused:

Any-ways in the end the did a control>alt>delete reset on their VAGCOM machine and it let them recode all the keys, so all fixed now but I still didn't get any kind of explanation as to why they needed to recode the keys in the first place.

I didn't think that disconnecting the battery to do work required a re-code in most cases. Ah well at least it feels like they have fixed all the faults!! *subject to further validation lol