Rant: why do the Audi gods suddenly have it in for me?

[Andrew Buc]

On Mar 3, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Huw Powell wrote:

>> There's no excuse for leaving you hanging on the window,
>
> Yeah there is.  Common practice when you bring a car into the shop  
> is drop the driver's window to avoid lockouts.  That the owner  
> didn't allow for that means they are trying to salvage a POS worn  
> out unmaintained car.
>

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>
> Letting the driver's window go unfixed?  Bad symptom.  Not telling  
> the repair shop and then blaming them in any way for the problem  
> you knew the car had?  Time to move on.

No, it wasn't like that. The window went out only in the last month,  
and I didn't think it needed to be fixed right away. My practice when  
having a car aligned has always been to drop the car off, go about my  
business, and pick it up later. So I haven't watched anyone actually  
aligning a car, and I just didn't know that they'd need to open the  
window. Ignorance on my part. In hindsight, I am NOT blaming the  
alignment shop for opening the window or for failing to read my mind.  
Of course, in hindsight I would have gotten the window fixed before  
the alignment. If I had let the window go unfixed for months, then  
you'd have a point.

My garage informs me that one of the newly installed suspension links  
broke. They'll be replacing it and getting the car re-aligned at no  
charge to me. IMO if there's anyone to be annoyed with, it's the mfr  
of the piece that broke. So I'm feeling a bit better about it.

I'm thinking in terms of replacing the 4kq, but I plan to take my  
time, do my research, all that good stuff.