Tara
30-10-2015, 03:41 PM
As some of you might know my recently purchased A4 TFSI has been in having the juddering steering looked at but that was not the whole story , soon after buying privately I realized it was drinking to much fuel and my heart sunk after doing a search online to find the vast scale of the problem.
My car was coming up to 5 years old with 42k miles and had part Main Dealer and part Indie Specialist History so I was worried to say the least, the car was doing around 800 miles from top to bottom on the MMI so I booked it in for an oil consumption test where they change a few bits and they said to book it back in when you hit around 600 miles.
A few weeks later my wife called me on the way to work with the oil light flashing after only 550 miles so we dropped it straight back off to Audi who supplied us with a loan car and said they would be in touch ( 3 sleepless nights later ) they called to say it needed the engine out and new con - rods and pistons fitted which would all be done free of charge and to put the icing on the cake they said if I wanted while the engine was out they would put a New Clutch and Flywheel in at cost price to them £711 and give me my next service for free because they had wrongly diagnosed the earlier job of the inner tie rod ends .
To say I nearly snapped their hand off was an understatement , I know the oil consumption part is just getting the car back to how it should be anyway and I'm the first to knock Main Dealers but the level of service really was and is outstanding .
So just to add if your suffering this problem out of warranty and not all Main Dealer History just speak to your local dealer as you can find light at the end of the tunnel as long as its been serviced to manufacturers specification using genuine parts.
My car was coming up to 5 years old with 42k miles and had part Main Dealer and part Indie Specialist History so I was worried to say the least, the car was doing around 800 miles from top to bottom on the MMI so I booked it in for an oil consumption test where they change a few bits and they said to book it back in when you hit around 600 miles.
A few weeks later my wife called me on the way to work with the oil light flashing after only 550 miles so we dropped it straight back off to Audi who supplied us with a loan car and said they would be in touch ( 3 sleepless nights later ) they called to say it needed the engine out and new con - rods and pistons fitted which would all be done free of charge and to put the icing on the cake they said if I wanted while the engine was out they would put a New Clutch and Flywheel in at cost price to them £711 and give me my next service for free because they had wrongly diagnosed the earlier job of the inner tie rod ends .
To say I nearly snapped their hand off was an understatement , I know the oil consumption part is just getting the car back to how it should be anyway and I'm the first to knock Main Dealers but the level of service really was and is outstanding .
So just to add if your suffering this problem out of warranty and not all Main Dealer History just speak to your local dealer as you can find light at the end of the tunnel as long as its been serviced to manufacturers specification using genuine parts.