Clock Resetting

[manca]

Hello All

Can anyone tell me why my clock keeps resetting itself. It must be 80% of the time. It only happens when I get in the car. It mainly goes to 0:00 but just for the hell of it will sometimes pick something completely random. Date is often wrong as well, and usually sticks at the last date I used the car. Time will go wrong without affecting the date but date never goes wrong on its own. I can't set it to Radio or whatever the setting is, it just goes to 0:00 when I do that. Running latest firmware, but don't have any of these cable things to check anything with.

Thank you (and Happy New Year).

Adam

[snapdragon]

Mine does it if I leave the sidelights on such as when parking somewhere dark and get out the car and lock it. There was a radio software fix for this, but it didn'tw ork for me and I have the latest SW.

[manca]

I don't appear to have any rhyme or reason to explain mine. Lights on or off, wipers in auto or off. Open door using fob or handle (and any handle). Use the key or the start button. Daylight night time... lights programmed to say on or go off.... I doubt I've tried every variation but all the same.
I've run the gambit of ritual dances, talking to it in German. I've tried sacrificing chickens and goats (I'm still on the lookout for a virgin.... )
All seems a bit ridiculous really .
Definitely wasn't as bad when I first got it. If no-one can point to a likely cause I'll have to run it into a stealers

[limoncello]

only tsb i can see for clock being wrong like this is as snap says ussually due to sidelights being on when key taken out.

you could try the fix its quite simple but doesnt always work, its a quick bit of coding with vcds

however there is a proviso that on MY2006 cars produced from 12/05 and with the software data version 0400 or 0410 where the fix is to Update to software version 0420 (or higher) via the software version management (SVM) ie only done at the dealers

details of tsb are roughly here http://www.audi-resource.com/faq/con...is-wrong.html?

[manca]

Thanks very much limoncello

Mine is a facelift 2005 car registered in May. I guess produced before 12/05. I'll need to look up how to check my software version. I remember reading sometime ago that the lights could cause problems. I went through a period of ensuring they were off before switching the car off but it didn't cure anything. I'd also swear the clock doesn't wait 1.5 hours to reset itself but I might be wrong so will check.

[Adrian E]

I'm fairly local to you and have the latest update discs if you want to run them through the car - also have an old copy of VCDS and a clone cable which worked fine on Audifin's D3 4.2d the other day