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it's possible a brake line could anchor to a steering rack housing, but I can't say without having the car in front of me.
The reason this post is sooo long is because I can't make it any shorter and tell this story. I literally just signed up and became a member of this site just so I could reply to your Audi post... First of all I gotta say... be thankful your Audi isn't the one I have haha... ALL the crazy problems I've had with my 98 Audi a4 quattro 1.8T 5speed after only having it for 4 month will never happen to me agian because I know it's not possible for another car to pull this kind of Bullsh** on me twice in a lifetime!!! I have to say say this first... I'm a 23 year old girl from Green bay, Wisconsin. I'm CONSTANTLY fixing cars... I have a 1989 Porsche 944 that keeps falling but I keep fixing that one... A 1998 Audi is not an old car by any means but I don't know what to say when the car that is the same age as me makes my new foreign sports car look like a cheap toy! I've also owned a 2000 BMW M Roadster... 2 years older than the Audi and the quality difference between the two is a joke... Yeah Jokes on me & I sure as hell am NOT laughing! The part that gets to me the most is for some crazy reason i LIKE this car and not sure why but I really wan't to keep it running... haha I will have to sell that before the end... Unless I get myself a couple parts cars.
Here we go........ The first time I noticed that something wasn't quite right with that car is WORD FOR WORD what you posted about the "flashing red light". I'd go over a bump and BEEP BEEP (and from ONLY owning high $$ maintenance foreign sports cars in my life) That bad feeling I get from my cars when I just KNOW a prepare is imitate... hit me like a swift kick in the balls after only have the car for 2 weeks... So a couple weeks after that my rear break caliber started leaking tons of break fluid. I replaced it and had to bleed all of my breaks. Then within a couple weeks of that out of nowhere at a stoplight... The car was idling just fine but then while letting off the clutch... the more throttle I gave she would try to choke out and stall unless I quickly pushed in the clutch... So what the hell now right?!? I Had to tow her A** home and luckily I figured out what was wrong before I took her in to a mechanic. The hoses on my turbo for air intake weren't "air tight" there was an air leak. I fixed that myself. The red break like still goes off but now from back end of my engine pretty much under my dashboard a metal pipe directly attatched to my radiator is leaking massive amounts of break fluid. Just a simple O ring I'm sure... But there is NO WAY I can get to that pipe myself and replace the seal... Oh well I guess I'm stuck filling up the coolant tank FOREVER. While all these events were unfolding before my eyes I've been noticing a "pop" sound coming from the back end of the car right as I shift between the first 3 gears... COOL pretty sure my car is now backfiring and It keeps getting a little louder with every POP. Oh and I forgot that something suspension related is making one of the most god awful moaning noise I've ever heard on the driver's side and OH I think the other side is starting to make the noise now too... hahahaha OK well at least the car runs... I'll give it that.. Trying to be positive. It's AWD and a Wisconsin winter is 2 months away.
Few days later my clutch goes....
I got that car this year for the 4th of july and I ended up having to push her home right when football season started...
I'd really like to hear someone top that story...
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That car is getting fixed right now and I'll have her back for Christmas...
I've NEVER experienced anything like this before and just threw me off to point where I'm more confused than anything because It all happened sooo fast. That car is coming back into my life within the week... and starting to feel a touch of anxiety because I almost think that car might actually be self aware with a terrible sense of humor and something big planned for me....
hahahaha I own the Audi from hell and I really wanted to share this.
At least your Audi isn't THIS Audi.... Good luck.
I got a flat tire tonight. I cannot get the damned thing off. I got it jacked up and off the ground, and all five lug nuts off and it would not bug, it was so tight it felt like it is welded on. I called my dad as i wasnt somewhere with a computer and he found something on youtube that said to use the black plastic peg from the tool kit and insert it in place of a lug nut and than slide the tire off. I tried this and still found the tire to be snug as can be. Has anyone one experienced the same problem or have any idea how to get it off? it is a rear tire on an '02 a4 quattro. I got the black peg very far in there and couldnt see any difference between any of the holes for the lugs or any label that shows the peg needing to be placed in a certain hole. oh yeah and my glove box mechanism is broke so my manual is stuck in the glove box. PLEASE HELP!
Also, the Air Bag warning light in my 2001 Audi A4 Quattro just came on and has stayed on. Has anyone experienced this? Could it mean I will need a new airbag or maybe just a sensor/electric problem?
2009 Audi A4 Quattro Prestige. My car's oil light would come on every 2000 miles or so. I got tired of putting oil in and one time at the dealership I mentioned it to the service rep and he said that the can run some tests for that. So I took him up on it. Im sure many are familiar with the oil consumption issue with the engines by now so I will skip the fun commentary and simply state that they measured my car to be burning 0.48L/1000 miles. So, they replaced the pistons and piston rings.
Then, unrelated to that a month later they replaced the radiator fan and motor mount. A few weeks later, not so major the amplifier had to be replaced ($2k)....damn expensive. Shortly thereafter, I couldn't get my sunroof to close so they replaced the sunroof frame. SWEET. so in about 4 months I had all those repairs, and then one more time, my car wouldn't run right....cam shaft. New Cam Shaft. Oh yeah, one more thing, when the cam shaft got finished being repaired the battery died so new battery ( I guess that's normal right the car is 3-years old).
So, on a 2009 A4 I had about $10k in repairs over a 6-month period.
The sucker I am I sold it back and bought another one.
I do have 3 years and 76k more miles of warranty, though.
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Anyway, what's the price of the extended warranty? The Audi care service plan is definitely not worth buying because that is just pre-paid maintenance. To hell with that! Get your routine work done at an independent shop, it will b tons cheaper.
It would go from max to min on the electronic oil level indicator in 1,000 - 1,200 miles, which is about a quart of oil. There were no spots where I park.
Which is interesting, because the TSB replaces a crankshaft seal. I am not familiar with Audi's inline four, but normally this type of seal would weep out of the front or rear of the engine block. The service writer wasn't very interested in discussing the specifics, but otherwise I had a great experience.
I travelled from out of town to my 'local' dealership and they did the TSB in less than 5 hours. They also reprogrammed the ECU and advised me to give it full throttle at least once a day. No problem there.
I wonder what would happen if you sprayed some starting fluid into the air cleaner, if it would start right up again? It would be good to know at least if the engine is losing fuel or losing spark. If it would start repeatedly each time you sprayed starting fluid, then you'd pretty much suspect a fuel cutoff.
I suppose you could buy one of those very inexpensive spark testers and have someone crank the car over when it isn't starting.
To better illustrate, I will ask you to post any patent number (patent information is public and is searchable on google) for any Audi windshield. Can you post a single lawsuit that Audi has ever filed again another windshield maker to protect their "patent"? The answers to both will be no, because there is no patent or trademark involved with their windshields.
A trademark has more to do typically with a logo or slogan. The Audi rings are a trademark for example. The Audi windshield is certainly not a trademark.
What is true is that aftermarket products vary in quality. I personally have had 4 windshields replaced in my various cars history, and I can say that all of them were aftermarket non OEM glass. I would challenge anyone to notice ANY difference. Might one of them be 1 millimeter wider? Sure, no question. Would that make any significant difference to a consumer? No. Could there be some aftermarket brands that are substandard? Sure, I suppose so. In my experience, the only difference I noticed on one was the amount of tinting at the top of windshield being slightly different. Not better or worse, just different.
If you want to tell me that an Audi alternator has better electronic components, and higher quality bearings, than aftermarket brands. Sure, that is probably true. But for automotive glass? This is glass, we are talking, there is little technology here.
2005 Audi A4 Maintenance
Sounds like you are referring to the 35,000 mile checkup.
Audis do tend to be a bit maintenance intensive. I suppose if you went to the dealer for this 35,000 mile check, it would be pricey, but perhaps less so at a good independent shop. You might take this list to an indy shop you are thinking of using and get a quote.
I have a 2005 Audi A4 Cabriolet with about 103,000 miles and was wondering when the main pulley gets replaced. I was told that it was the pulley that was causing an engine noise I hear, but I was told it didn't need to be replaced yet. It's a growl type noise and sounds worse for some reason when I am turning out of or into my garage and when I have the car in "Drive".