Checklist for Reliability of Older Audis

[Huw Powell]

On 8/15/2011 9:09 PM, Marc Boucher wrote:
> As we'd discussed, my Audi 100 just died with no warning last Friday.  I feared the worst in terms of repair bill but today I got a call that the part (ignition booster) is $61 and very little labor.  Let's assume that they got the diagnosis correct and this chapter will shortly be closed.
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> I'd like to open a different subject: what could have been done to prevent this?

Nothing.  A 20 year old transistor died.  It happens.