A4 Avant, 4 years old, annual service and 2nd MOT, 25,500 miles. The technician gives you a headcam rundown on his findings which I find useful as I have no means of getting under the car. To my surprise he identified corrosion on one of the rear suspension mountings and marked it as an advisory on the MOT results. I tried to upload photos of the affected side and the ‘good’ side but my photos are apparently too big to upload so I’ll do that later when I’ve figured out how to make them smaller.
Has anybody else experienced this? I’m rather disappointed given that the car is only 4 years old and hasn’t covered a great mileage. I can only imagine it’s a peculiarity of my particular car and plain bad luck. To fix it they quoted £198 inc vat, but as it’s an advisory at this stage I decided to pass on it this time round. I may no longer have the car when the next MOT is due, although I appreciate that the MOT findings are a matter of public record so it’s not something that will go unnoticed to anybody who does their homework.
I would normally have moved the car on by now, but I really like this one so I have decided to keep it for a further year with an extended warranty.
Has anybody else experienced this? I’m rather disappointed given that the car is only 4 years old and hasn’t covered a great mileage. I can only imagine it’s a peculiarity of my particular car and plain bad luck. To fix it they quoted £198 inc vat, but as it’s an advisory at this stage I decided to pass on it this time round. I may no longer have the car when the next MOT is due, although I appreciate that the MOT findings are a matter of public record so it’s not something that will go unnoticed to anybody who does their homework.
I would normally have moved the car on by now, but I really like this one so I have decided to keep it for a further year with an extended warranty.