That sucks... a lot. Was hoping that maybe the parts were trickling in to the country slowly at least. But it seems no one here has maanged to get it fixed yet
Called the dealer in Aberdeen regarding my rattle, provided them with all the references from these threads and they immediately acknowledged the issue and my car is now on the waiting list for the part.....which is of course on back order. Question, the sound clip at the start of this thread, what you would describe as a 2 second "whine" on start up.....is that linked to the "rattle?"...because i have that sound too, but only in the morning...
Perfectly honest question and relevant to the thread. I suspect that the C.O.D would be on the "watch list" for this issue but of course by now the fix should be applied during production....so you should be OK
There have been no reports of turbo charger linkage rattles on the 1.4 CoD engine, and if there was something, someone would have already complained on the busy German A3 8V forum at Audi A3 8V Forum & Community - ab 2012, Typ 8V. In my own experience, it was very easy to hear the rattle in the standard 1.4 A3 8V SB that I test-drove in April (the saleswoman denied any knowledge of the problem when I mentioned it to her after the test drive), but my 1.4 CoD A3 8V SB has been fine so far.
Would the 1.4 C.O.D. Manual potentially be effected by this rattle problem ?
I haven't seen anyone mention it on a C.O.D., but is basically the same engine and i don't know if this part is effected by the slight diffrence in setup or is totally uneffected by diffrence to Non C.O.D. car.
Excuse my ignorance as probably really obvious to some of you who are far more machanically minded.
I won't get mine till very late in year so hopefully Audi would have rolled out a solution in the factory for everyone well before then,
But if not i need to watch (Listen) out for this problem.
thanks
Yeah the dealer told me the rattle wasn't going to break anything so I guess that's why it's low on their priority list to get fixed. I've just read the what-car long-term test too, sounds like he's equally as frustrated. He says 6 weeks is 'too long', yet some of us have been waiting 16 weeks!!
I guess that as Audi hasn't yet issued a Recall for the "rattle", that they don't deem it to damaging to the engine? I'm not familiar with Turbo Petrol's so wouldn't even know where to look for the Linkage/Waist-gate under the bonnet
Yeah the dealer told me the rattle wasn't going to break anything so I guess that's why it's low on their priority list to get fixed. I've just read the what-car long-term test too, sounds like he's equally as frustrated. He says 6 weeks is 'too long', yet some of us have been waiting 16 weeks!!