Hi (and opinion please)

After my car blew up a couple of weeks ago I went looking for an A4 / A6 second hand (budget of around £8000). I spent days scouring the internet and finally found my perfect car, an A4 2.7 TDI S Line in monza silver (extras including B&O, Sat Nav, Full Leather). Car is high mileage but well maintained with FSH (including gearbox oil changes) and drives absolutely perfect (minus CEL on) dealer (non audi) stated that it is swirl flaps and they will be done before taking delivery.

Spoke to the dealer just now (10 days later) and he has still not had car repaired, he has advised they have spent around £1000 in parts so far and still need a few days as more parts coming in. To be fair to them they have offered a courtesy car but tbh I can't be bothered with the hassle of getting there to get one (it's a fair way from me) and I can live without for now, but dealer did say today that he is nearing the end of what he can justify spending on it and if I want to cancel the deal I can with no penalty.

I have looked and tbh nothing comes close to this within my budget and location (plus it is through finance so limited to dealers only and even then only certain ones approved by finance company) I don't mind waiting a bit longer for the car even though I am absolutely itching to get into it I would rather this be dealers problem and I get car coming to me sorted.

What is likely fault with it? As it stands I am very tempted that if he can not get it fixed / runs out of money I put in an offer to buy it as spares & repair (I am happy to get up to my elbows in oil) but worried if their garage is having trouble is there something more to worry about? They have not been specific about what has been done so far but from conversations we had they have replaced flaps and linkages then replaced motor (no idea what current extra parts they have ordered are) apparently it had an audi health check and that was only issue from them. Is there much more to the swirl flaps than this? From everything I have researched so far most people seem to have fixed them by changing the flaps and linkages only, none have seemed to have any further issues.

Cheers.

That was my thought didn't think there was much more to them...

Tbh I understand they want to do it cheap as possible so will be ordering one bit at a time so does take a while, don't know if it is case of they have tried just doing one bank as well and now having to do second that's what extra bits are.

Tbh do feel inclined to walk away but it's a beautiful car and once done it's done... Could go pick up a different one that's running fine today but the flaps are a few hundred miles away from failure, such a tough decision.

I know you can't trust a dealer but he came across genuine I think it was because of delays and knowing I could probably get finance company to cancel deal anyway which would affect his standing.

I think I'll just hold out till the weekend now and see where it stands. If I don't get it till Saturday at least I won't have to pay for this month's tax

Lol ain't that the truth... I really hate car dealers.

Well determined now to keep waiting.

This is it BTW...

Just had the call it is ready for collection going to pick it up soon

Thanks yeah this one is 140k but drives spot on and I'm not afraid to get hands dirty.

Tbh was originally looking at the 2.0 but as soon as I drove this knew it had to be this one.

Yeah it's the multitronic... That was biggest worry buying such a high mileage but will see if gamble pays off

60 mile drive home was nice, multitronic is definitely different lol and deceptively fast when accelerating slowly... Come through some roadworks at 50 they ended and I'm just keeping up with car in front feathering accelerator getting the hump because we are going so slow until I look down and doing 80... Would have sworn we'd only got up to 60 max!

Were there any other brakes fitted as optional extras? My front calipers look huge and according to myaudi.com it has 8 pots at front? I was getting small vibration on braking nothing too bad but puts brakes on the list of things to do.