I absolutely agree with you on that.

After checking around on here, alot of people with the same engine's are experiencing all sorts of problems but the most common I find are turbos popping and gearbox's failing but then on another hand, these A3 BKD'S are very popular so it's only natural that there will be lots of posts with issues on them as there are so many on the road so I don't know what to believe.

I did read a post somewhere on here which I can't remember where now and the garage that posted it said that they see more BKD A3's than any other Audi so that made my heart sink a little.

I think fixing her up and upgrading with guaranties like you said is probably the route I'm gonna take.

I hope you don't end up with a crazy bill and you get it sorted eventually. And me as well for that matter haha