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

[Stoddard Robin]

I completely agree that three years is WAY to long, but yes I would have expected a response similar to what you suggest.
And so I'm just passing on this life lesson to the group that you need to somehow test your stuff before you install it.
I expect that when I buy something new, that it is reliable, but alas no not always...


On 2010-06-15, at 7:51 PM, JC wrote:

> 3 years IS a long time, so I could understand if they gave you a hard time
> to prove the install window etc.
> 
> But would have expected (ESPECIALLY Given your lifetime spend with them...)
> that they'd at least give you something like "OK tell you what - how about
> we'll sell you the rebuild parts at cost..?"   Or something similar.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Taka Mizutani
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:35 PM
>> To: Robin Stoddard
>> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Blown turbo & Life lesson #3568921
>> 
>> Wow, that sucks. I guess the stories I've heard about 034 are
>> true- buyer beware.
>> 
>> Although 3 years is a really long time- I had a similar issue
>> with a vendor where they sold me the wrong part, but I didn't
>> know about it for 18 months (never installed it and I can't
>> tell the difference just by looking at it- box wasn't labeled
>> wrong or anything). I kind of strong-armed the vendor into
>> giving me a small concession, but at least the part was workable.
>> 
>> I'd be really pissed if the part was simply faulty.
>> 
>> Taka
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:34 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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