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Most new stations in my area use this nozzle and as older stations replace nozzles they install the OPW 12VW. The places I can get gas are slowly disappearing. I know some other A4's have had this problem. Anyone know of a fix? My dealer is unable and unwilling to help.
Please respond if you have experienced the same problem and what I can do about it. Or what you think my problem is.
Is this something I will get used to or is something wrong with my Audi
Anybody have any thoughts?
I used to drive a 1999 323CI BMW.
Either way my friends think its rediculous but the bottom line is I have been driving the car for one week and seriously concerned about the ride comfort. I am imagining it is that I am not used to the ride of the car since it is such a contrast I feel from my previous ride of 6 years.
Thanks for comments and corrections I hope everyone understands what I am trying to convey, sorry for sounding so stupid.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts
Byron
I want to say that I purchased my car from a dealer that is 2 miles away from Audi of America. From the moment I stepped in the showroom to every visit to the repair shop, the service is phenomenal. Even though one of the service guys is a bit of an [non-permissible content removed] the rest of them make up for his rudeness. Also, everytime I request a car when mine is in repair/service, they always give me another A4 with about 5,000 miles on it.
Here are my problems I've had with my 2003 A4 1.8T:
1. At 9,000 miles, the glovebox door started to rattle. No problem, dealer fixed it. Now it requires applied downforce in order to be opened.
2. In the blistering cold here in Michigan, at about 25,000 miles the fuel pump went out. No problem. Germany sent over a new one and 4 days later I had my car back.
3. Here is the kicker....at 39,000 miles, driving on a beautiful sunny Saturday, the car starts to make funny howling noises....I'd shift gears and the noise would go away. This happened a few times and when I slowed down to about 25MPH, it went bezerks, did this weird high speed winding noise as if something was grinding and it stalled. It would not crank or nothing. Had it towed to my dealer within an hour. Luckily I caught the manager there and even though they were "CLOSED" he managed to go inside and give me a brand new loaner A4.
I called about a week later to inquire as to what happened. The manager told me that the water pump turbine has been getting worse and worse. Because of that, the water pump seal had slowly leaked coolant into the timing-belt cover which caused the timing belt to gradually loose its grip/function and simply snapped. Because it snapped, one of the piston heads collided with 2 valves. Both the piston shaft and valve shaft were bent. The good thing: no cylinder wall damage. yay!!! They fixed it without asking me any questions. I did ask them how much it would have cost if I were to pay for it. Their answer: $5,000.
When I got my car back, the MPG were a bit worse then normal, but after a while it got back to normal and now it drives like a champ.
4. Now I have 48,000 miles and the front suspension makes funny squeaking noises whenever I go down/up a driveway or over a speed bump (of course, I drive over them slowly).
One thing I have come to realize is that you need to have lots of $$$$$ if you want to drive a performance vehicle. Audi cars are made to perform. And just like anything high performance, it works wonderful, however it has a short life span. In the case of Audi, they are using LeMans technology in their cars. LeMans cars are built to perform for only 24 hrs, not 5 yrs. Once the Audi engineers figure a way to incorporate reliability with performance, they will manage to win over BMW & Lexus buyers.
Ohh and another thing I've learned is to "NEVER BUY A CAR THE FIRST YEAR IT COMES OUT". As an engineer, I've worked on a few vehicle launches here in Detroit and let me tell you, they are not pretty. Managers cut timing drastically, thus not giving us engineers the proper time to do our job properly.
One thing I know for sure is that Audi will have problems with their FSI technology in 2006...its too new. Come 2007, the 2.0T engine be flawless....just in time for the A3 quattro.
Thanks for reading my novel and feel free to post any comments.
I,ve released one screw on the inside of the boot and have a little bit of movement but still can't get the light cluster free!! I can't see any other obvious screws. can you help??
If you don't need quattro and like to shift yourself the mileage is pretty good I think.
I hope none of you reading this will have one of these "unique experiences". I have had German cars for years and they get testy, but if the company and dealer stand behind the product then life is good. With Audi I have a total of 150 days at the dealers, one was 45 in a row. For those about to ask, yes, I pursued them with Lemon law (due to intermittent failures they avoided taking the car back) and got a large settlement. What is odd about Audi is the fact that all they had to do was fix the car, they once offered me 1 month lease payment in return for not having the car for weeks. That check never came, even after repeated calls to them, they just said they were looking into it....for 4 months? So that 1 month they offered me ballooned into much more in court and with all the warranty work, loaner cars and their own experts they have spent triple the cars value - yet they can't fix it and won’t give up. Is this putting the customer first?
As much as I wanted to like and believe in Audi I am giving up. They are not ready and they do not have the customer service attitude. I am frustrated with all the smoke blowing and I just found out my issues were known about 2 years ago...the dealers, plus Audi, chose to ignore or were incapable of understanding their own service bulletins. My advice is stay away, if you get a bad one you are in for a battle. One of their employees told me they only sell cars, seems to be true.
Sorry to ramble, but, it has been quite a wild ride. It is all documented.
It is a shame because one can see the attention to detail in the car, but any product without support is worthless.
Not trying to be facetious here, but if you took them to court and won, then why would you be still driving the car? It seems counterintuitive. Let me try to explain. Your A4 has been nothing but a pain in the [non-permissible content removed], you take it to the dealers et al X times to be unsuccessfully repaired, until the point you take them to court and win. Don't know what the settlement was and I don't want to meddle into your business, but why didn't you have Audi buy the car back from you? a. You un-[non-permissible content removed] the car. b. You take the money and buy something else.
I really like the new A4 and would really like to give Audi an opportunity. However, it's the incessant articles about bad experiences similar to yours that keeps me questioning whether or not I should give Audi a try.
Any other A4 2005 to 2006 owners experiencing the same?
I have a new 2.0T waiting to be picked up at a different dealer - but, I can't do that until mine is repaired. Such a headache.
Has anyone had this problem or have any ideas where the water is coming from? Note it happens when the car is parked, so I don't think it's coming up from the street.
Thanks
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I was not clear in the beginning, the car is a lease and it is difficult to get out of.
I did push for Audi to take the car back, however, they flat out refused going by what their dealers said (even though it had been at one dealer for 45 days in a row). Instead of going on for months fighting Audi in court I agreed to accept a $$$ settlement with the understanding that Audi would fix the car. I really wanted it to end and thought Audi would do the right thing, I liked the car and thought Audi realized their error and wanted to make right, I was foolish. After court and another 80 days at the dealers I am turned off from the brand for good. The whole experience has been a huge let down, in fact, I am still waiting for them to follow up after my last 2 week episode of the car being with their own experts, I always get promises they will call, no calls come, and this is from the USA Headquarters. This is not unusual with them.
Audi really fights taking cars back, I heard from many sources they are one of the most difficult car companies to deal with, not to mention personal experience. They are experts at giving you hope then no follow up. I can't recommend one.