10-23-2017, 09:14 PM
It begins...
Left rear shock is leaking hydraulic fluid from the DRC system, which had already been replaced under recall 23k miles ago, so I called up the closest Audi dealer in cville to see if it would be covered under a warranty from that. Lady goes to check and comes back with 'we will need to see it before we can say for sure, but if it's faulty then it should be.'
Great, take a day off of work and go down only for the service manager to tell me no, Audi will replace it once under the recall but that is it, after he collected $125 and 5 hours of my life. I even bribed them with a dozen fresh made apple cider doughnuts when dropping the car off, thought for sure that'd work.
I expressed my frustration with the misinformation I received on the phone but in reality I probably knew there wasn't a chance it'd be covered, I just wanted it to be true so bad.
Their guy did notice a few other minor things to address while he was in there, and I asked for the part number list when they printed out the $6000+ repair order.
It was kind of fun to see their reaction to me asking why I would spend six grand on the same suspension that lasted >25k miles.
Long story short, this box showed up the other day, and if history is any guide it'll find a nice home on a garage shelf for about a year before I install them.
I also got a couple used fobs on eBay and extra keys cut at a locksmith in cville but found out this car had a different immoblizier than the B5 so once a transponder is paired to a car it can't be used again. There's guys that I can send ecu to and they'll disable the immoblizier but I was hoping I could find a diy. Apparently you can't do it in vcds.
Oh, and I bent a wheel after getting pushed off the side of a back country road by some red in a coalroller taking up the whole road. Not awful but enough for a decent shimmy now. I was pretty pissed at that guy, but guess it's time to switch to the euro wheels.![[Image: c18247a2eeda2f519afc113777fc39cf.jpg]](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171024/c18247a2eeda2f519afc113777fc39cf.jpg)
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Left rear shock is leaking hydraulic fluid from the DRC system, which had already been replaced under recall 23k miles ago, so I called up the closest Audi dealer in cville to see if it would be covered under a warranty from that. Lady goes to check and comes back with 'we will need to see it before we can say for sure, but if it's faulty then it should be.'
Great, take a day off of work and go down only for the service manager to tell me no, Audi will replace it once under the recall but that is it, after he collected $125 and 5 hours of my life. I even bribed them with a dozen fresh made apple cider doughnuts when dropping the car off, thought for sure that'd work.
I expressed my frustration with the misinformation I received on the phone but in reality I probably knew there wasn't a chance it'd be covered, I just wanted it to be true so bad.
Their guy did notice a few other minor things to address while he was in there, and I asked for the part number list when they printed out the $6000+ repair order.
It was kind of fun to see their reaction to me asking why I would spend six grand on the same suspension that lasted >25k miles.
Long story short, this box showed up the other day, and if history is any guide it'll find a nice home on a garage shelf for about a year before I install them.
I also got a couple used fobs on eBay and extra keys cut at a locksmith in cville but found out this car had a different immoblizier than the B5 so once a transponder is paired to a car it can't be used again. There's guys that I can send ecu to and they'll disable the immoblizier but I was hoping I could find a diy. Apparently you can't do it in vcds.
Oh, and I bent a wheel after getting pushed off the side of a back country road by some red in a coalroller taking up the whole road. Not awful but enough for a decent shimmy now. I was pretty pissed at that guy, but guess it's time to switch to the euro wheels.