[s-cars] Blown turbo & Life lesson #3568921

[Andrew Beckert]

"Raises both hands with middle fingers pointed in 034's direction"

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:

> *Hand up*
>
> The archives and many of your memories will lead to my issues with a
> urS4 turbo and coil pack install.
>
> -Cody (mobile)
>
> On Jun 15, 2010, at 6:19 PM, "Wylie Bean"
> <theringmeister at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Show of hands.... How many of "us" might have guessed that?
> >
> > Wylie Bean
> > TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
> > 90 cq
> > 91 90q20v
> > 92 UrS4
> > 08 Q7 3.6
> > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stoddard Robin <rstoddard at shaw.ca>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:09:39
> > To: Joe Pizzimenti<joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com>
> > Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com<s-car-list at audifans.com>
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Blown turbo & Life lesson #3568921
> >
> > Nope, not making it up...
> > I guess you are correct in that I am just stating the facts here.
> > The company is 034 Motorsport.
> >
> >
> > On 2010-06-15, at 4:02 PM, Joe Pizzimenti wrote:
> >
> >> So why are they unnamed?
> >>
> >> It's not like you're making it up...or are you?
> >>
> >> -pizzo
> >>
> >> On Jun 15, 2010 5:50 PM, "Stoddard Robin" <rstoddard at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >>> Exactly as it should be...
> >>> Any company worth existing should be able to say "very sorry we
> >>> sold you a bad product. How can we solve this?". Instead of "it
> >>> took you three years to get the car running? Well lucky us and
> >>> tough xxxx for you." Which leaves me with the only choice of
> >>> having the turbo fixed locally.
> >>>
> >>> To add insult to injury, I was told by this unnamed company that I
> >>> could either get it fixed or buy a new cartridge from them for
> >>> $750. It will be a long time if I ever decide to buy anything else
> >>> from these guys again. What's really sad is that it's not like I
> >>> only bought a bolt from them for $2, over the years I have spent
> >>> close to $20k with these guys on building the car up.
> >>>
> >>> RS
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2010-06-15, at 3:13 PM, Douglas Landaeta wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> And a reptable place, like perhaps ECS, warranted a bad porsche
> >>>> caliper a year or so after selling it (GB) for me after careful
> >>>> splanation and documenting that the install just occurred and the
> >>>> sale was some 15 months prior.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ya'know, even weldo will make good on a bad part.
> >>>>
> >>>> Doug
> >>>> Some unamed vehicle manufacturer,
> >>>> Parts and Services Program Manager
> >>>>
> >>>> Sent from my mobile
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Robin Stoddard <rstoddard at shaw.ca>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I bought a pair of new RS4 turbos from a tuner that specializes in
> >>>>> Audi based mods three years ago for a race car build. Only to find
> >>>>> out (now that the car finally runs) that one of the new turbos is
> >>>>> blown. The company's response that sold them to me is "sucks to be
> >>>>> you" because we (or anyone else) will not warrent our parts for
> >>>>> that
> >>>>> long.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So the lesson here is, TEST your f'n parts before you install them
> >>>>> espescially when dealing with a certain Audi turner/parts company.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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