Advice on how to get Audi to replace defective engine?

[HurricaneSteve]

It can't be bad publicity if it's user error. 🤔

Well the bad publicity of having an engine blow up with no warning at under 100k is certainly their problem.

[2o6]

Well the bad publicity of having an engine blow up with no warning at under 100k is certainly their problem.

You think Audi cares?

[Eye of the Tiger]

Did somebody push the red button? 🤔

[HurricaneSteve]

The only car I've owned that had engine issues was a 1979 Ford Fairmont with the I-6 and that was because I didn't check the oil. But crap happens!

Yeah, I would wonder about that.

[Eye of the Tiger]

You think Audi cares?

🤔

[CaminoRacer]

The only car I've owned that had engine issues was a 1979 Ford Fairmont with the I-6 and that was because I didn't check the oil. But crap happens!

Only engine I've ruined is a 350 SBC because I was in a hurry to swap the heads before race weekend and put stock length pushrods in it instead of +0.10 inch pushrods.

[HurricaneSteve]

  Hence...user error!

Only engine I've ruined is a 350 SBC because I was in a hurry to swap the heads before race weekend and put stock length pushrods in it instead of +0.10 inch pushrods.

[Soup DeVille]

I set a Land Cruiser on fire, but in the engine's defense, it was still running when I shut it off, and the fuel lines were on fire at that point.

[FoMoJo]

Only engine I've ruined is a 350 SBC because I was in a hurry to swap the heads before race weekend and put stock length pushrods in it instead of +0.10 inch pushrods.

Didn't you have a blown engine on your drive home some time ago?

[CaminoRacer]

Didn't you have a blown engine on your drive home some time ago?

Yes, that's what I'm talking about.

It survived almost 2 years with the wrong pushrods before it broke a valve.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Yes, that's what I'm talking about.

It survived almost 2 years with the wrong pushrods before it broke a valve.

Can you not just take up the slack by tightening the rocker arm a bit moar?

[CaminoRacer]

Can you not just take up the slack by tightening the rocker arm a bit moar?

Yes but the geometry being off by even that little ends up wearing through stuff over time

[BimmerM3]

You think Audi cares?

Do I think that Audi executives are actively worried about this one instance? No.

Do I think that Audi wants me as a customer, but that this event will make me less likely to purchase an Audi? Yes.

Whether or not they care, things like these have an effect on their business. Which is why I asked if they knew anyone with a large social media presence. Enough bad publicity will get shit done.

It can't be bad publicity if it's user error. 🤔

Other than one mention of another engine failure, nothing indicates that it's user error unless I accidentally skipped over something in this thread.

[thewizard16]

I set a Land Cruiser on fire, but in the engine's defense, it was still running when I shut it off, and the fuel lines were on fire at that point.

I suppose that's probably not the engine's fault. Maybe.

I remember when the Camry took a trailer hitch through the front of the radiator, which then pushed the compressor into some other thing and into some other thing and it was leaking its vital fluids all over the road but just sitting there idling calmly as if it wasn't about to die a horrible death... When I sneezed in the Passat I'm pretty sure an error code would pop up.

[Soup DeVille]

I suppose that's probably not the engine's fault. Maybe.

I remember when the Camry took a trailer hitch through the front of the radiator, which then pushed the compressor into some other thing and into some other thing and it was leaking its vital fluids all over the road but just sitting there idling calmly as if it wasn't about to die a horrible death... When I sneezed in the Passat I'm pretty sure an error code would pop up.

No, it was an electrical relay failure. It was also 15 years old and had 229,000 miles on it. I broke the front hub on the current one too, but it was put together wrong in the first place, and I was backing a trailer that was 2000 lbs over the rated capacity up a hill in the ice.

[BimmerM3]

...and I was backing a trailer that was 2000 lbs over the rated capacity up a hill in the ice.

lol

Did you share those details in the original thread? For some reason I thought you were just driving it normally.

[Soup DeVille]

lol

Did you share those details in the original thread? For some reason I thought you were just driving it normally.

I thought so.

edit; I didn't mention the weight- which I didn't know until a couple of weeks after the incident.

[thewizard16]

No, it was an electrical relay failure. It was also 15 years old and had 229,000 miles on it. I broke the front hub on the current one too, but it was put together wrong in the first place, and I was backing a trailer that was 2000 lbs over the rated capacity up a hill in the ice.

I just don't see any way you could have avoided that situation.

[RomanChariot]

lol

Did you share those details in the original thread? For some reason I thought you were just driving it normally.

It sounds like normal operation to me.