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Replying to: 204meca (Aug 27, 2007 10:57 pm) Good luck and let us know how it works out. |
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| I'm looking for a used A4 for my son, and was just wondering on what model year was the best. I was also wondering if the pre 2002 models had curtain airbags. I would hope to buy it for under $15000. Any and all advice would be appreciated | |
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I have a 2004 A4 w 42K miles. While trying to quickly adjust a mirror, my control popped thru the hole & into the armrest. When I took it in the service associate gal said, "I have seen lots of these, you will need a new switch." When I picked it up, the service manager said he did not think it would be covered under the warranty and that he had never seen this problem before.. HUMM - who is speaking the truth here??? Has anyone seen this problem? Seems to me that it should be covered under the warranty. Any suggestions? Other than the recently posted noise problem that was quickly resolved by having the fuel filter replaced (under warrantly, no questions) our A4 has been pretty problem free --- so far. Thanks.
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I've recently experienced knocking in my engine and my check oil light is beeping every minute. My mechanic is telling me that there is a sludge problem in older Audi's but he doesn't believe that can be the problem since there is better gasoline going in cars today.Has anyone experienced this and what can be done?
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My wife & I just got back from the dealer, and have put down a deposit on a 2003 A4 3.0 quattro with 59,000 miles. We shopped & drove similar age/mileage BMW 325i and G35s, and found this car listed for $15,500 at an Audi dealer -- which seemed like a very competitive price (particularly from a dealer.) I wanted a quattro as we are moving to Colorado in a few weeks. When we got there, the salesman said they had just got it from an auction, and it wasn't even clean yet. I said fine -- we're willing to look. I figured that its current condition was a better indicator of how it was maintained anyway. Car drove great, everything worked, etc. We were thinking it over when the salesman said he would talk to manager. He comes back & gives me "I have good news & bad news" spiel. I'm thinking -- here it comes. He says good news is they are going to "certify" the car (it was initially presented & advertised "as is," no warranty), providing the 2 year, up to 100k coverage. Now I wait for the "bad news" -- expecting the dealer to claim a "pricing mistake" or that the "certified" price is $2-3k more. Nope - he says that they have to detail & inspect it, and fix a couple of dings before they will let us have it, and it "won't be ready today" -- but can we pick it up Monday? That was the "bad news". I was considering buying it at $15.5k as is, and they certified it for nothing. Sold. So unless they discover some big problem during the inspection, I am back in the Audi club. I had a '98 A4 1.8T manual I bought new, and drove 60,000 miles with almost zero problems -- one dealer trip for a steering issue when turning the wheel in reverse, fixed under waranty -- not so much as a burned out bulb or fuse other than that in 3 years. But my wife got hit in the front left corner by a truck at stoplight, and it never seemed "right" after, so I sold it. Hope we have good luck with this one. |
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Replying to: blueezes (Nov 30, 2007 11:48 am) If you have records for all the maintenance for that vehicle I suggest getting it to a dealer immediately to see how bad the sludge may be. I believe there is a recall related to this, but good maintenance records are critical. Mostly I have heard that they 'clean things up' and all is OK, but let them cover the expense if possible. Any mechanic who is considering gasoline as the potential cause of engine oil sludge is suspect in terms of competence as far as I am concerned. |
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Replying to: 204meca (Oct 06, 2007 9:57 am) |
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Hi Everyone, I tried to search the forums as I am new to this site, but wasn't able to find a similiar post. I bought a 96 A4 2.6 this summer, and it has been great...though I am having trouble now that winter has actually returned to MN. About a month ago I was exiting the hwy, breaking around the off ramp, when the rpms just dropped to nothing. It completely stalled. Glad the steering wheel still functioned and that there wasn't anyone behind me. The weather changed to 30 degrees to 0 by the end of that day. Didn't have an issue again, but still took it into a precision tune and the error code showed it was a plug on cylinder 5. They made the repair and everything was fine, until this morning, when it was minus 15 overnight. Actually had to get a jump. Drove fine into work, until I got a few blocks away and was at a stoplight. The RPMs started to hover around 500, it would rev back up to 1K and then finally stalled. Anyone else experienced this? Cold Temperatures seem to be a factor. Apologize for the long post, but wanted to give you as much info as possible. Thanks! AJ |
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I want to share my Audi A4 lease termination experience so others can learn from my mistake. Having had a positive experience with an A6 lease via Seattle’s University Audi, I decided to lease my second Audi in 2004, this time, an A4. One month before the end of the lease, I went through the lease termination inspection. Got dinged for $1300 items: a door ding for $125, two scratched wheels at $276 each, and a couple other things I wouldn’t challenge. I live in the city and to me, scratched rims and door dings are normal wear and tear. However, this is not Audi’s position, thus there was no negotiation. It was not a positive experience dealing with Audi Finance. I found them arrogant and ambivalent. I thought that customer retention would matter to them. My misunderstanding. My car had low miles (27K for 4 y/o car) and was in good condition; no problems to date. It also had a low residual, so I thought that if I were going to have to pay an additional $1,300 to relieve myself of the car, perhaps I should consider purchasing it or at least have someone I know purchase it. It was a good car; good price; made sense. Very close to the end of the contract, I took the car in for a service inspection to make sure there was nothing glaringly wrong with it before purchase. When I checked in with the service department that day, I was told it was going to be $200 for the inspection. Huh? Then the service rep told me the car was out of warranty. What? The lease isn’t up yet. Yep, the warranty had expired three days prior. Steaming, I told them to go ahead and do the inspection. Turns out the power steering rack was going out (as well as a couple of less major things) and it was going to be about $2,500 to repair it. Well, clearly, Audi isn’t going to want this car back with such a serious problem. A conversation with the district warranty manager should give us clearance to repair it under warranty. Nope, they wouldn’t do it. That decision was completely illogical to me, regardless of you'd run the numbers. They’d rather take it back, ship it off to auction and drop the car “as is” on some unsuspecting buyer. Again, a warranty department that has no interest in customer retention either. (So, head’s up if you are a recent purchaser of a dark blue Audi A4 VIN WAULT68E94A011017) And my sales guy, who I’ve bought two Audis from, was no where to be seen through this process, although I know he was aware of what was happening. He too was completely uninterested in retaining me as a customer. In fact, my comment to the Sales Manager (Ivan Velkov) at University Audi was “across the Audi corporation there is universal disinterest in keeping me as a customer.” I could provide more details to this story that would better reflect the how silly it all was, but for brevity’s sake, I won’t. Suffice it to say, Audis are selling well these days. Don’t be surprised if you don’t matter to them. I have been a European car owner for over 30 years. They’re great cars. I still have one. However, I did just purchase my first Japanese car. It’s a blast.
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