I got the tire done and they handed me a booklet of things that need to be repaired on my car:

$1400+ for two parking brake motors that were working fine when I pulled in. When I got my car back I told them my brake worked fine and they said no, it didnt. The light was on when you got here and you need new motors, give us the go ahead and we can have it done today. I said screw that, I will figure it out myself. I ran my carista app and the following codes came up..
This was something I was in over my head with so I thought. Until it dawned on my to check my fuses again. When I checked my fuses my two 30amp fuses for my electronic parking brake were missing completely and the 5amp fuse was in one of the 30 amp slots leaving the 5amp slot empty as well. The 5amp fuse was of course blown as it couldnt handle that slot. These are fuses that were there and intact prior to bringing it in to Audi. So i replaced the fuses and ran carista again..
The left parking brake now worked perfectly and the right wouldnt engage and was giving me some error codes. I removed the parking brake control module and put the same one back in, everything was clean and the connections were fine.
I decided to get under my car and swap my motors to see if the right one was blown or if it was just a connection on that side. What I found was even shadier than the fuses. When I first located the parking brake I was trying to locate the electrical connection to it. I couldnt find a wire running to it because this is what it looked like:
This is my other parking brake and what its supposed to look like:
I finally located the wire unplugged and covered in months of brake dust and dirt:
I ran my carista app again after clearing the codes and every fault was gone and both of my parking brakes, motors and connections all work perfectly.
If it wasnt for Carista I would not have known what the problem was. If it wasnt for you guys who helped me with a DIY on removing a parking brake motor and telling me what to look for then I wouldnt have known where to begin. The amount of douchebaggery that the Audi Brooklyn repair shop put me through and flat out sabotage to my car in order to turn a buck is disgusting. I am very careful with my car and always check things out myself before letting someone else look at it. Had I taken their word for it I wouldve been out $1400 when all they had to do was not steal my fuses and not removed my wire. THE END!
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