I'm still waiting to get mine back. They have had it over a month but they are just waiting on parts from Germany. At least I'm racking up the miles on their nice new A6 and not my car!!!
not sure. They did say they were replacing pistons and crankshafts and maybe something else.Surprised they have not offered a replacement engine are they doing a full rebuild of the cylinder head valve stem seals and such ?
Glad you had a better result than me with Audi.
Mine will be going into DIALYNX in the near future and it should cost me half the amount Audi wanted to charge.
Yeah too right! The pity is, I'm now about to go abroad with work for 6 months so I'm not even going to get to appreciate it!You must be beginning to forget what it looked like, going to need some love with a clay bar when it comes back I bet.
I thought they would just slap a short engine in and be done with it.
What I also want to know is how bad the head and the cat will be on mine.
It must of been doing this for some time, so they have to be pretty clogged up.
It has also picked up an issue with not telling me when it needs it's 1lt drink, have to go in and keep checking manually.
My final bill was over £6000 but with the goodwill (mainly thanks to full Audi Service History) I ended up with a bill for £255! I know somebody got it repaired for FREE! (and it was also out of warranty!). People shouldn't have to pay as Audi know this is a major problem with the TFSi engine!!!!!Well car was back in for the second part of the oil consumption test today, it failed! I had to take the car back in early as the 'top up oil' was on after 230 miles!
Apparantly it needs the short block as the bores are scored, total parts cost just over £6,400. Labour costs are still to be confirmed.
The initial offer that was talked about was Audi covering 70% parts and 50% labour costs - That'd leave me to pay around £1900 for parts alone, plus how ever much 50% labour might be which is way to much - They're going to have to seriously up the offer for me to go ahead with the repair. I'm due to have a conversation with the Service Manager again tomorrow
Hi, my apologies for mini- thread hijack.
Im currently thinking of buying an a4 petrol as my daily commute (4 miles) simply doesnt justify a diesel. I am looking at 1.8 T FSI as insurance is lower. Does this problem also commonly affect 1.8 together with 2.0?[/QUOT
the oil use covers most audi cars
a3 a4 a5 etc etc
1.8 2.0 even the 1.6 its just luck of the draw some do some dont some a little some alot
I wish i had the luck like above. Bought mine from a local garage and using about 1ltr of oil to 450 miles :/ The car has done 100,000k but is in mint condition with a full audi service history. If i can put up with the oil consumption is the engine ok otherwise to do so?
this was my initial thoughts as well, but over 12k miles the oil consumption increased by over double to around 1 litre every 220-240 miles, and the car has started to run a bit rougher, smoke more, hesitate etc etc so I don't think it's something that can be left indefinitley Either be prepared to get it sorted, or sell it on before it gets worse. I wish I'd have sold mine on as soon as I became aware of a problem and saved myself being in this situation. I just hope it's all good after the new engine is fitted tomorrow