You will have a dry joint (solder connection) in the electronics of your odometer. That's very common. There are instructions available how to re-solder it, but I'm not aware if in English as well...
Hi Sean A 4.2! Have you any photos There a few of us with Audi V8's on http://www.classic-audi.co.uk/ And there's a couple Audi car shows Audi,'s in the park ,Northampton on August 13/14 Audi driver international at Castle Combe October 15
On mine I also didn´t see any defect. I just resoldered everything I could and after that it all worked again. As far as I remember it has to be that. If the sensor would be broken the car wouldn´t start. The cold solders are a very very common problem (also on the Audi 100 etc). So Chances are very high that this is your defect.