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Service bulletins for the 2012 Audi A5

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

1064 on file from NHTSA, as of 2026-10-19.

About P17E1 on the 2012 Audi A5: what the code means, and the bulletins and recalls about the same components.

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37 13 08 20341632022-05-02. Service bulletin. POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE (TCM/PCM/TECM); ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Software error in the transmission control module. Customer may report that the transmission does not work correctly. ? Shortly after a cold start, the following message appears in the instrument cluster display: ?Gearbox Malfunction! Journey can be continued?. The gearbox is in limp mode until the key is cycled. ? The issue is very sporadic and cannot be reproduced with a test drive. ? DTC P17E1 (Gear positioner 2 mechanical malfunction) with DFCC 9473 is stored in the transmission control module, J743 (address word 02). ? The DFCC is the 4-6 digit code that is typically listed before the fault code (Figure 1).
A371308 2034163-2017-11-17. Service bulletin. POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. Customer may report that the transmission does not work correctly. Shortly after a cold start, the following message appears in the instrument cluster display: ?Gearbox Malfunction! Journey can be continued?. The gearbox is in limp mode until the key is cycled. The issue is very sporadic and cannot be reproduced with a test drive. DTC P17E1 (Gear positioner 2 mechanical malfunction) with DFCC 9473 is stored in the transmission control module, J743 (address word 02). The DFCC is the 4-6 digit code that is typically listed before the fault code. Software error in the transmission control module.
A371776 2034163-2017-10-27. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. This bulletin contains software update instructions for when receiving DTC P17E1. The issue is sporadic.
TSB-37-13-082013-08-09. Service bulletin. POWER TRAIN. AUDI: SOME VEHICLE MAY EXPERIENCE GEARBOX LIMP MODE. THE ISSUE CANNOT BE REPRODUCED ITH A TEST DRIVE, IT IS INTERMITTENT. DTC P17E1 AND DFCC 9473 ARE STORED IN THE TRANSMISSION MODULE. *JS

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