One of my friends has the same issue on his 2.5Tdi.
It's been like this for probably a year now. It happened about 6 months after the belt change so he decided to wait until the next one instead of replacing. Apart from facing another winter of driving with a jacket on, he said the car has been fine.
It's got high miles (235k) so owes him nothing. Fuel economy hasn't suffered much. He still gets about 600 miles to the tank and going slightly off topic, he noticed if he leaves his roof bars on (proper Audi ones) he gets 500 miles to the tank!
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