reliability of the allroad? or 2.7T

[thejimrose]

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> You'd be surprised what mommy and daddy's money will buy. That and a
> bunch of yuppies with more money than sense or experience.


no.. i wouldn't. i live in san francisco, home of the highest # of
billionaires per capita in the country. i regularly pass kids in dad's
maserati on the way to redwood high school in larkspur.

> also you can't 'chip the heck' out of the car. you can 'chip it' but there
> > aren't levels. all of the chips are available from VERY reputable tuners
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> Sure there are levels. GIAC, for example, at least used to have three
> different levels of performance-- mainly based on how much boost you
> thought you could get away with. The more highly-strung variants were
> clearly marketed as requiring 100+ octane race fuel.


the  performance "levels" [afaik] have always been tied to octane. not "some
boost", "tons of boost" and "get out your warranty card". beyond that, the
chip determines the boost, not the user. unless youve installed an MBC in
wich case, sure, you have a grenade knob.


> It's upping the boost pressure which spins the turbos faster (turbos
> too have a "redline" where they will grenade just like the rest of
> your motor...) and generates more heat to cook the turbo's bearing
> that causes the trouble.


point being that chipping the car wont cause this. there is a point after
which, as you say, the turbo is just blowing hot air as it's out of its
efficiency range. i don't know of any chip-related failures as you said was
the culprit of turbo problems.


> My S4, at least, is a counter example. It came from the factory with
> the "upgraded" oil plumbing, and yet that didn't seem to help.
> Bearings cooked @ 50k miles...


it is still an audi. i got 110 good miles out of my k03. 100 of which were
on the pre-recall lines.