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Old 22nd May 2016, 01:47 PM
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So, does anyone actually know what jacking mode actually does?
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Old 22nd May 2016, 01:55 PM
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So, does anyone actually know what jacking mode actually does?
As far as I know it disables the auto-levelling system so that if a corner of the car is jacked up, the car doesnt try to level the other corners.

I can imagine the consequences of that could get quite messy, especially if you're lying underneath the car!
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Old 22nd May 2016, 04:32 PM
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As far as I know it disables the auto-levelling system so that if a corner of the car is jacked up, the car doesnt try to level the other corners.

I can imagine the consequences of that could get quite messy, especially if you're lying underneath the car!
My thoughts exactly. So not putting that car into jacking made is unlikely to have caused the damage to that cars system.
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Old 22nd May 2016, 05:02 PM
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Jacking mode need not be activated when lifted on a garage lift as the suspension module can recognise when it's being lifted, as taken from Audi SSP.

Fundamentally Jacking mode is a human safety feature to stop the car adjusting and potentially unstabling itself while raised on a jack.

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Well found Matty.
Now we need to find out what actually happened to cause this damage.

When Gwen first bought the 8 I took her out for a meal at Cheshire Oaks. We had been in ownership for about 25 hours and knew jack shiz. On leaving the restaurant we found our rear right rather flat at the bottom. We had collected a screw in the tyre and most of the air had run away.
Being a sort of capable lad I jacked her up (the 8 not SWMBO) and attached the spare without setting "Jacking Mode". Ignorance is bliss. Managed Ok and no disastrous problems.

So what did KF Fitter do? Perhaps we will never know.
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Hi sorry phones been broken and I've been working away without laptop. Cars still in the garage kwik fit been out too see it at regional managers request, apparently he was a audi master tech but didn't know jack about the a8 the bill now stands at £1215 with hire car fees included. The cause seems to of been off the acetylene torch while trying to loosen the bolts. Still arguing over who's fault it was. It's part 12 in the photo I've lost the other photo's I had of the damage.
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The cause seems to of been off the acetylene torch while trying to loosen the bolts.
Clearly they are at fault then, they need to cough up 100% of all costs and a little more for your time!
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Still arguing over who's fault it was.
How the heck can it not be their fault entirely.....

I'm sure there are plenty of cases argued over a paint scratch or a wheel scuff, but this does seem a bit of an open and shut case from what you describe.....
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