[urq] Audi Tradition

[John Koenig]

FWIW, in years past I used to do a lot of work with AoA corporate guys, and, yeah, the Parts operation for North America, at least then, was 99.99% designed for NAR cars and parts, and there was no real connection to VAG parts at all. I have to believe that newer and slicker market-specific systems make that even more true. 

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From: "lawson d" <lawson.d at comcast.net> 
To: "urq" <urq at audifans.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 3:26:19 PM 
Subject: Re: [urq] Audi Tradition 

>Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:25:11 -0500 
>From: "Scott DeWitt" < scotty at advancedautomotion.com > 
>To: "Ben Howell" < bhowell at rmi.net > 
>Cc: urq at audifans.com 
> 
>Subject: Re: [urq] Audi Tradition 
>Audi USA has an exclusive agreement with Audi AG in Germany which prohibits dealers and Audi itself from sending parts directly to US customers. 
>Basically one must go through an Audi USA dealer to get parts from Europe. 
>There are ways around it but it adds cost, risk and complexity to the transaction. 
The Audi USA dealer path doesn't work. I have contacted my local dealer about ordering parts and there is no way for him to order. 
The Audi tradition parts aren't part of the normal parts database and he has no ability to get into the tradition parts database. 
I believe Ben has verified this same response through another Audi US dealer. So basically they have implemented a system that 
doesn't work and screws over US customers. Same as it ever was... 
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Dave