2006 A6 won't start - conclusion

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Sounds like he got robbed by the anti-theft device.

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Kneale
Brownson
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 4:45 PM
To: Vic
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: 2006 A6 won't start - conclusion

Sounds like part of the anti theft immobilizer system. Any recent vehicle
will be subject to these kinds of issues. 

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> On Feb 20, 2015, at 2:23 PM, "Vic" <victor.norman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Okay - after finally getting the car out of park I had it towed to my
local indie garage, confidently hoping that the problem was a bad ignition
switch. 
> Got a call from the garage - needed a J518 access/start module which
required a link to Ingolstadt to reprogram it - they couldn't do that. 
> So, towed the car to my Audi dealer and three days and $2735 later the car
is back on the road. According to the dealer the problem was "faulty
steering column ECU caused by a faulty power supply relay". This required
the steering column to be replaced. The relay cost $27.20 and the steering
column cost $1856.99.
> Bah! I could buy a used steering column for a couple of hundred dollars
but there's no way that the garage would have reprogrammed it for me...
> A Lexus RX350 is starting to look very appealing right now.
> 
> Thanks for all your help guys.
> 
> Vic Norman.
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