Audi RS5 EPC Light - Not even had the car a week!

[Autopilot]

Hello all,

I picked up a 2011 Audi RS5 last Friday and so far have been really impressed by it, comfort, refined but with V8 oomph when you want it.

On my drive in to work this morning, an amber engine management light (near the top of the dash) started flashing and the EPC light then came on, then the flashing light disappeared but the EPC one remained on. The car then felt a bit lumpy, almost like a wheel weight had come off, but as I slowed down and turned the radio off, I could then tell then it appears to not be running on all cylinders and then limped the remainder of the journey to work (I was nearby so would rather get the car off the road and out the way).

I'll get the car booked in to an Audi specialist tomorrow, but my question is whether the car is ok to drive home this evening or does it need recovering? I'm new to this Audi V8 malarkey so don't currently know if an amber EPC light means the car is able to limp home or whether it shouldn't be driven at all. To be fair, I didn't expect to have to find out this early in in to ownership as I'd normally have done a whole load of reading by now.

Thanks in advance for any help offered!

[Gio G]

First of all lovely car OP! If EPC light is on, I would not chance running it any further. May not be anything too drastic, I have had this on other cars and a simple coil pack was the fix. Do you have a warranty on it?

Good luck and enjoy..

G

[djc206]

I had a 2010 RS5, lovely car congrats. Anyway on topic I was driving along and the EPC light came on and the car started misfiring. I stopped switched the engine off, restarted, still misfiring, off for about 30 secs, on again and all seemed fine. Phoned Audi assistance who said drive it to nearest centre which was surprising normally they tell you to wait for a flatbed. After a week of fannying around changing sensors etc they asked Audi Germany who suggested it was an alternator regulator failure. They asked if anything else had happened which it had, one day I had floored the car away still not quite up to temperature and the sports diff failed, upon restarting the car the error went away so I figured it was fine and didn't get it looked at. Turns out that was a symptom.

Have you had any other suspicious warnings or behaviours even temporarily?

My advice is phone Audi assistance they are really quite good. They will come to you, plug the laptop in and if necessary recover the car and provide you with a hire car. Last time I used them they delivered an SQ5 to my house, not the RS4 that I drive but not too shabby for a hire car I guess.

Edit: having reread your post if you haven't bought from an Audi dealer I guess you don't have Audi assistance. Presumably you have some kind of warranty? Driving the car might make claiming on that contentious I guess. Good luck!

[si_xsi]

Coil pack? Could be anything really but need to plug it in to vagcom to see what faults it is throwing up.