Audi Ownership - Maintenance cost per mile?

[Brett Dikeman]

On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:56 AM, Eric Langheinrich wrote:

> Let me start by saying about a year and a half ago I purchased an  
> Audi CPO
> 2002 4.2 A6. Over the course of around 17 months and 30,000 miles  
> this car
> has spent what seems like an excessive amount of time in the shop. Of
> course, since it's certified I feel tied to the dealership for  
> service.

Unless the CPO ties you to a particular dealership, you can take the  
car to any Audi dealership for service.


>  Simply, what am I
> paying my dealership/Audi for the pleasure of driving this car in  
> parts (for
> the sake of argument including tires...it's a long story), labor, and
> warranty deductibles.

Would you mind sharing info about the deductibles?  I was under the  
impression CPO = "everything is covered for ____ miles/years".  I  
sense a great use of the Audifans knowledgebase to cover the specifics  
of CPO and owner experiences.  Send me whatever you feel like writing  
up and I'll start a new article on CPO here: http://www.audifans.com/kb/

(We're going to allow public editing soon.)

> On an aside, I might go back and figure out just how many days the  
> car has
> been in the shop since I've owned it. I figure this should be an  
> interesting
> exercise for me to decide if driving an Audi is really worth it to  
> me at
> this point.

It's not a question, really, of whether "an" Audi is really worth it;  
it's a question of whether this particular one is worth it.  Audi  
doesn't do spectacularly well in reliability surveys, but there are  
far, far worse.  You should be looking at state lemon laws, and I'd  
also suggest escalating the issues you're having with Audi Client  
Relations.

Brett