Hi,
I've been lurking a while reading lots about what to tweak on my B8 S4, but in the mean time my wifes A4 has just had its oil pump fail and take out the bearing opposite the pump... swarf in engine, turbo dead etc.
It has had a colourful 14 months, we bought it second hand approved used through Audi. It turns out it was one of the oil slurping engines so last September they rebuilt the engine with new pistions/rings.
My wife then had 2 separate blow outs driving home from work - on what where good condition looking bridgstones.
Now 12 months later the wheel bearing goes, and on driving home from having that replaced the car started making a rattling noise.
I took it back to Audi the next day, by the time I drove the 2 miles up the road it had gone from no noise at startup to a knocking.
Audi say the engine/turbo is damaged beyond repair and want £10k to fit a new one.
So here is my dilemma, I can't really afford to dump £10k into an engine, and I'm suspicious of rebuild companies saying they can do it all for £2k.
I'm happy stripping the engine out of the car and have plenty of mechanically minded friends offering assistance, but if I was to go down the replacement engine route where would you source one?
Ideally I'm after some advice/suggestions from people who have been in similar situations?
Thanks in advance,
-A very stressed out Jim.
I've been lurking a while reading lots about what to tweak on my B8 S4, but in the mean time my wifes A4 has just had its oil pump fail and take out the bearing opposite the pump... swarf in engine, turbo dead etc.
It has had a colourful 14 months, we bought it second hand approved used through Audi. It turns out it was one of the oil slurping engines so last September they rebuilt the engine with new pistions/rings.
My wife then had 2 separate blow outs driving home from work - on what where good condition looking bridgstones.
Now 12 months later the wheel bearing goes, and on driving home from having that replaced the car started making a rattling noise.
I took it back to Audi the next day, by the time I drove the 2 miles up the road it had gone from no noise at startup to a knocking.
Audi say the engine/turbo is damaged beyond repair and want £10k to fit a new one.
So here is my dilemma, I can't really afford to dump £10k into an engine, and I'm suspicious of rebuild companies saying they can do it all for £2k.
I'm happy stripping the engine out of the car and have plenty of mechanically minded friends offering assistance, but if I was to go down the replacement engine route where would you source one?
Ideally I'm after some advice/suggestions from people who have been in similar situations?
Thanks in advance,
-A very stressed out Jim.