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

[Wylie Bean]

Your experience w/ Rick's car was definitely one experience to which I was referring.
Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:47:04 
To: theringmeister at triad.rr.com<theringmeister at triad.rr.com>
Cc: Stoddard Robin<rstoddard at shaw.ca>; s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com<s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com>; Joe Pizzimenti<joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com>; S-CAR list<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Blown turbo & Life lesson #3568921

*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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