Quote Originally Posted by B8_Jim View Post
First off - kudos to the$dr and TOMASZ for this. Knock on wood - my S5 isn't affected by this yet, but if it occurs it seems like I have a likely work-around.



Still seems like they could have the dealers disable this "driver steering recommendation" for customers that complain while they work on the permanent software fix. It would improve the customers ownership experience in the interim, and it would be nearly zero additional labor - surely they are hooking up and checking for DTC's from anyone that complains about bad steering - how much extra effort would it take for VAS to flip a bit? The new SW would have been installed either way for customers that complain, and for cars that do get this disabled - it can be re-enabled as part of the new SW flash.

Leaving a bunch of cars on the road that you "can't drive straight" can't be doing Audi any good.
It's probably one of those things where by issuing a service bulletin, they are more or less admitting to the world that their steering is f'd and they have a half assed fix (not demeaning the value of this fix found by dollardocter, just saying it's band aidish". When they do finally fix this, there will be some formal recall issued and they will take a PR hit. Best move right now is to attack them through PR channels like facebook etc. I don't disagree with you, and if I was experiencing this problem I'd flip the bit in vagcom yesterday.