Hi, sadly I'm welcoming my self to the club, the club of people who have been screwed by this problem.
Has no one come up with an acronym yet for us poor b*****ds with this problem? We need to get membership cards or something :icon_thumright:
Joking aside
The patient: A4 B7 Sline 2.0TDI 170 80,000miles
My first Audi, had it 3 WEEKS, ......3 EFFING WEEKS! was really enjoying it and the oil light came on blah blah blah you've heard it all before...
The usual repair along with the Turbo, Audi Edinburgh quoted me £3600 for the repair :sign_omg:, but to their testament, they had already applied to Audi UK for a 'good will' gesture towards this, so waiting to hear back...
I went in to speak to them, without me having to argue or grovel for anything yet, they offered me 70% off the parts and Audi Edinburgh themselves would take a 1/3 off the labour.
So £1400, a LOT better!
Albeit it still very painful and gut-wrenching as I've only has it 3 weeks.
There was a slight catch though, if the car has been serviced via Audi, they would give me it no problem, but it hadn't.
It had though been serviced just 2 months ago by a specialist (with previous owner), Audi said though, and I couldn't
really argue it, unless I could get a list of the parts from the garage showing it was serviced with genuine Audi parts then I would have to pay £299 for Audi to service it first.
So I argued it somewhat saying surely you can't charge me the full £299 for the service considering the car is half stripped already etc.. and surely it's far quicker and easier for the service to be done now that they have the car already etc.. so that got me a measly £50 more off, but I'll take it.
I'm hoping to get the car back early this week, after being in for 2 weeks now, delay on parts etc..
So...........
The Good: I got a sizable chunk of cash off the bill without having to ask for it and they have been very pleasant to deal with.
The Bad: it's still costing me a lot of money for a bad Audi design fault.
I'd like some honest opinions here:
When I get it back, as much as it would pain me, should I look to get rid of it? Will it just happen again?
Planning on keeping it for 2-3 years, doing 12K max a year.
It's a beautiful car, a lovely looking s-line with gorgeous two-tone leather sport s-line seats , I love it to drive. But I need to be realistic.
Thanks guys.