[BiturboS4] Blown Turbos (Non-Chipped S4) - Update

[Scott]

Bruce, I'm interested in knowing more details on your extended warranty. Our
local dealer is quoting us ~$2300 for a 3/100 with a ~100 deductible (which
I don't care about -- this is for the big ticket items, IMO.

By the way, your calculations below look a bit weird. $120/mo for 36 months
isn't $1600...

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Mendel [mailto:brucem105 at comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:31 AM
To: Walter J Green Jr; stiles_s at hotmail.com; fastwheels3 at attbi.com;
biturbos4 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [BiturboS4] Blown Turbos (Non-Chipped S4) - Update

Why not just buy an extended warranty? We love the cars, but the fact is
that they are high performance twin-turbocharged cars, so life expectancy is
shorter than the average Taurus, we drive harder, and parts are more
expensive. Reliability or Audi's quality aside (and those are big asides), I
think we all knew coming in that these were not Honda Accords.

But a good warranty, with essentially bumper-to-bumper coverage for 3/100
(so you get 3 yrs and whatever miles are remaining on the way to 100K) is
only about $120 a month ($1600 total) with zero deductible, rental and
towing coverage, etc. That seems more than reasonable to me, and I've taken
advantage of that warranty many times on my previous car, a 1993 S4.

Two of us UrS4 owners organized a group buy on the warranty. Email me for
details, but suffice to say I am getting the same warranty again on my
new-to-me 2001 S4.

Bruce

>
> I was thinking that myself. very expensive to maintain post-warranty.
maybe
> we should sell at 20k miles. I looked mine up, it's worth 10k over the
> payoff figure on the loan.....
>
> Hmm.........
>
> WJG
>
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