"Saftey System Malfunction! Please see owner's manual."

[mezgermischief]

My car today has been lit up like a christmas tree. I have airbag warning lights, audi pre-assist warnings and safety system malfunction warnings. Anyone experience similar issues or have any thoughts?

[brihutch3]

Did you disconnect your battery for anything? Anytime I disconnect mine, all the systems warn and alert until I drive for a bit.


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[mezgermischief]

Did you disconnect your battery for anything? Anytime I disconnect mine, all the systems warn and alert until I drive for a bit.


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Nope, the issue is intermittent aswell. Only appeared a few minutes after driving, disappeared a couple minutes later only to re-appear again.

[brihutch3]

I would check battery cable and ground strap connections in the front and back of the car. With all those lights it sounds like a loose connection somewhere.


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[Potatohead_RS3]

Most likely low battery voltage

[steve111b]

Are you able to read the messages and scroll through all the entries?

In my case I saw an entry about the rear handbrake. I suspect the handbrake froze and triggered all the warnings. After carefully removing the ice on the caliper and 5 minutes of driving the warnings disappeared. Have you encountered water, hit a curb, or anything unusual?

[MXblau]

If you're tuned, it was a known issue. There's a thread on it if you search.

[0000 RS5]

This recently happened to me. Ended up being a PODS failure.

[Fear37]

Happened to me twice. Went to the dealer with my stage 1 unitronic tune and they fix'ed it. Both time when I got the car back it's back to stock tune. They didnt mention anything about me being tuned

[mezgermischief]

Car is stock, only mod I guess is midpipe secondary cat delete (and getting rid of those garbage pirellis). Passenger airbag sounds like a contender especially with the recall and how post-"fix" things only seem to be worse.

[0000 RS5]

Car is stock, only mod I guess is midpipe secondary cat delete (and getting rid of those garbage pirellis). Passenger airbag sounds like a contender especially with the recall and how post-"fix" things only seem to be worse.

Exactly. Mine was post-“fix” as well. To a bit to become un-fixed.

[JayMixedIt]

When they fixed It, It took off your tune? I have a B9 A4 unitronic stage 1 tune. Yesterday will driving same error message popped up randomly. “Audi pre sense malfunction contact service” and yellow indicator of cockpit. Turned It on this morning just says “safety system malfunction”. With yellow safety light on.

[JayMixedIt]

Happened to me twice. Went to the dealer with my stage 1 unitronic tune and they fix'ed it. Both time when I got the car back it's back to stock tune. They didnt mention anything about me being tuned

When they fixed It, It took off your tune? I have a B9 A4 unitronic stage 1 tune. Yesterday will driving same error message popped up randomly. “Audi pre sense malfunction contact service” and yellow indicator of cockpit. Turned It on this morning just says “safety system malfunction”. With yellow safety light on.