[urq] What is everyone's opinion about Audi's parts

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... perhaps the one who had the ear of a ranking AoA official should print 
out these e-mails and show them to him too.

FWIW, a co-worker is driving an A6 2.7T ... don't remember the model year, I 
think its a 2000.  I wasn't a major influence in his purchase, but we did 
often compare notes about our cars.  From some of the things he's had to pay 
out of pocket for ... headlight adjuster controller, airbag controller, etc 
... I suspect he will not be a repeat customer either.

Sterve B
San Jose, CA (USA)

> FWIW, I think that I also talked a neighbor out of getting a new A6 
> yesterday.  He came over to ask about maintenance costs, etc., with Audis. 
> I told him about the fact that Audi has just stopped covering maintenance 
> items on new '07 cars, and that with what the local dealers charge for 
> those kinds of things, it will likely make a BIG difference during his 
> ownership of the car.  He was under the impression that Audi still had the 
> bumper to bumper coverage.  Another neighbor had thousands of dollars of 
> repairs covered by Audi (lots of brake and suspension issues) that would 
> likely no longer be covered.  He loves the car, but won't buy another for 
> fear of having to pay for the same issues. I doubt that those sales will 
> ever come back.
>
>
> James wrote:
>
>
> I have just this past weekend spoiled the sale of a Q7.  I won't replace
> my A8L or my wife's A6 with another Audi.   I will keep my urquattro and
> my rally car although I won't show my rally car at ANY Audi shows and
> will only run it on track debadged henceforth.   If Audi doesn't want to
> deal with urquattros then I certainly don't want to be an unpaid
> salesman for them.   It pretty much means we have to scrounge and
> scavenge for every single part on our beloved quattros.    Screw Em.