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Originally Posted by javadog
What you hear about production Audis is largely bull****, as most of the people with that opinion have owned few Audis, or even none at all, and often they are the second or third owner. I've probably owned more Audis than anybody else here and my experience has been pretty good. I've even owned a few that had exactly zero problems of any kind.
People tend to forget that any manufacturer can build a car with problems. They all have issues of one sort or another. Those of us that have been in the car business and spent much time in the service end of the business don't get very excited about these gems of Internet wisdom. Anything made by man can and will have the occasional problem.
JR
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You were lucky
I purchased new Audis between 1986 and 2004
1986 4000CS - great car no trouble, traded for
1990 90CS -great car no trouble
1990 V8Q basically good car, brakes were replaced under warranty, irregular temporary trans failure warnings that could never be nailed down, I kept this a long time
1991 20vt - great car destroyed @5k mi by a drunk driver that cam across 4 lanes of traffic to hit me head on, I saw him coming and was off the right side of the road on the grass, the sfety devices did their job
2000 S4 great car but there were so many turbos issues on these that I traded it for a
2004 S4 biggest piece of sh** I have ever owned in the 4 years I owned it it was in the show for 2 days to 2mo at a time every 6mo for the same issues. When the warranty expired Audi refused to cover the repairs, I sued them and forced them to take the car back
During all the time I owned these cars all purchased at the same dealership, They did all maintenance, I provided oil to them which was supposed to be included, not once was I offered a rebate partial or full for this. Audi and the dealership lost a customer on that one
The OP's issue however is not limited to Audi, I have noticed ridiculously low prices on 4 yr old BMW, Mercedes etc. All because all of the modern cars electronics and complicated mechanical systems are potential nightmares. When they work no one thinks about them, when they don't getting them fixed ain't always easy or cheap.
I talk to shop owners all over, the almost universal feeling is that they don't or can't work on the newest models. Due to the cost of training and diagnostic equipment
Then there are specialty cars like a beautiful AMG that I looked at recently, when an owner finds that a replacement rotor car run to $2k he balks at routine maintenance, the car is then driven into the ground and becomes worth pennies on the dollar.