The Audi Thread

The xenon light bulb on my SO's Audi has popped. It's out of maintainance plan and warranty and the Audi dealer wants to charger R3500 to replace.

Is there a reputable mechanic or dealer that I can take the car to for a quote? In the Jhb Woodmead area.
 
Shellyb1 said:
The xenon light bulb on my SO's Audi has popped. It's out of maintainance plan and warranty and the Audi dealer wants to charger R3500 to replace.

Is there a reputable mechanic or dealer that I can take the car to for a quote? In the Jhb Woodmead area.
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Price has gone up big time. Just under a year ago, I was quoted R2,400.
Except in my case, it turned out to be the controller that died, and the R2,500 quickly escalated to R13,000!
 
Shellyb1 said:
The xenon light bulb on my SO's Audi has popped. It's out of maintainance plan and warranty and the Audi dealer wants to charger R3500 to replace.

Is there a reputable mechanic or dealer that I can take the car to for a quote? In the Jhb Woodmead area.
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Well if you can confirm it’s the bulb itself and not another component you can just source another elsewhere yourself.

Hardly need someone reputable to install and charge for it.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Well if you can confirm it’s the bulb itself and not another component you can just source another elsewhere yourself.

Hardly need someone reputable to install and charge for it.
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Who sells the bulb? Where are parts like this found?
 
Shellyb1 said:
Who sells the bulb? Where are parts like this found?
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Personally I would probably eBay it.

No idea where to look locally.

I would start by swopping the known working one with the broken one to confirm it’s just the bulb first.

Then take a picture / model number and go off searching.

I know Philips stocks quite a lot of stuff locally and has resellers all over. Osram will too so all else failing call them to ask where to buy.
 
So I checked with my regular Audi dealership as to when I am due for my 75,000km service and they said because of the work they did in Feb this year I can consider it done (when they reconditioned my engine). So now I'm only due in Feb 2018 at 85,000km (which will be my 90k service they said). Which begs the question, when I take it to a non-Audi mechanic in future, how will they know for sure what the Audi dealership did or didn't do previously, or is that when it's useful for me to provide invoices or worklogs of what was done previously?
 
Hey guys... 300 odd pages is A LOT to get through. But my query has probably been dealt with 4billion times.

Ive been in the market for a car since my polo was pintched in july... and have across what seems to be a great deal.

Its a 2008 A4 1.8t multitronic (B8).

Ive read a lot of mixed reactions about the multitronic transmission failures etc on audis in general. Which makes me fear buying the car as i hear its a costly event... what are your thought on this perticular model? Have the issues been fixed in the 2008 models?

Never driven one before, so hoping someone could give me an honest crash course on these things.

Thanks in advance.
 
StrontiumDog said:
So I checked with my regular Audi dealership as to when I am due for my 75,000km service and they said because of the work they did in Feb this year I can consider it done (when they reconditioned my engine). So now I'm only due in Feb 2018 at 85,000km (which will be my 90k service they said). Which begs the question, when I take it to a non-Audi mechanic in future, how will they know for sure what the Audi dealership did or didn't do previously, or is that when it's useful for me to provide invoices or worklogs of what was done previously?
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Probably won’t really care too much for what was done before and just stick to the service schedule.

Do anything else as it gets picked up.

Usually they can track major stuff with the VIN number though.
 
Kris4lis said:
Hey guys... 300 odd pages is A LOT to get through. But my query has probably been dealt with 4billion times.

Ive been in the market for a car since my polo was pintched in july... and have across what seems to be a great deal.

Its a 2008 A4 1.8t multitronic (B8).

Ive read a lot of mixed reactions about the multitronic transmission failures etc on audis in general. Which makes me fear buying the car as i hear its a costly event... what are your thought on this perticular model? Have the issues been fixed in the 2008 models?

Never driven one before, so hoping someone could give me an honest crash course on these things.

Thanks in advance.
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Issues was only fixed later on 2011+, engine is known for heavy oil usage and gearbox is known to fail.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Issues was only fixed later on 2011+, engine is known for heavy oil usage and gearbox is known to fail.
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Thats a little disheartening, but what i expected. I cant afford to replace a gearbox... no way... Would you say i can get a much better option on a 95k budget?
 
Kris4lis said:
Thats a little disheartening, but what i expected. I cant afford to replace a gearbox... no way... Would you say i can get a much better option on a 95k budget?
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For 95k probably wont find a better car. Maybe see if you can find manual rather. 2.0T and 2.0tdi also much better engines, doubt you will find it in that price range.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
For 95k probably wont find a better car. Maybe see if you can find manual rather. 2.0T and 2.0tdi also much better engines, doubt you will find it in that price range.
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Yea and it only has 121 000km on the clock with a service history. It is sooooooo tempting. But im so scared at the same time.

Is this a 1st gen DSG? Or is it somthing completely different?
 
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