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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:56:21 GMT, Ed Chilada <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>
>Funnily enough, I'd have thought that the Audi reputation to exactly
>the opposite of what you're saying. They're ultra reliable but a
>relatively staid driving experience

Research "coil pack recall". <G>

Bonehenge (B A R R Y) <DwightSchrute@DunderMifflin.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:56:21 GMT, Ed Chilada <nospam@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Funnily enough, I'd have thought that the Audi reputation to exactly
> >the opposite of what you're saying. They're ultra reliable but a
> >relatively staid driving experience
>
> Research "coil pack recall". <G>

Research 'Bosch coil pack failures' and find out that it affected a
large number of manufacturers and wasn't a VAG specific issue.
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"Bonehenge (B A R R Y)" <DwightSchrute@DunderMifflin.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:56:21 GMT, Ed Chilada <nospam@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Funnily enough, I'd have thought that the Audi reputation to exactly
>>the opposite of what you're saying. They're ultra reliable but a
>>relatively staid driving experience
>
> Research "coil pack recall". <G>

And the number of manufactures that had the problem, it wasn't just the VAG
group cars, BMW, MB, AR, Ford too name but a few. The thing is people expect
ARs and Fords to stop working randomly so that was no disapontment.

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:36:25 +0100, "Depresion" <127.0.0.1> wrote:

>And the number of manufactures that had the problem, it wasn't just the VAG
>group cars, BMW, MB, AR, Ford too name but a few. The thing is people expect
>ARs and Fords to stop working randomly so that was no disapontment.

My buddy was really underwhelmed with the way Audi treated him. He
ended up paying to replace all the parts before the recall came out.
The car was sold by the time the recall was released.

VAG seemed to wait an awful long time before they owned up to the
issue.

"Bonehenge (B A R R Y)" <DwightSchrute@DunderMifflin.com> wrote in message
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>
> VAG seemed to wait an awful long time before they owned up to the
> issue.

It wasn't there issue, no other manufacture acted any quicker and most
couldn't do anything as the supplier of the duff units didn't have enough
stock to forfill the extra demand. As most of the vehicles had been designed
specifically for that unit another supply couldn't just be magiced up. It
wasn't an uncommon view in dealers of any brand to see the coil packs being
taken from the cars in the show room, the demonstrators or even new cars that
had a week or so before they were picked up to fix customer cars. This did
have a problem as some of the packs coming out of these cars were still from
the problem batch so the cars would then exhibit the same problem later down
the line. It's just like the Fabia/Ibiza/Polo thing the Fabia always come out
higher on customer satisfaction with relation to reliability despite the fact
that for the past few years it's had exactly the same underpinnings as the
other two, Skoda still don't have the reputation of VW so people expect less
and when a problem crops up they are more prepared for it. The same is true
for consumer goods last time I was looking for a new washing machine there
were a couple of ones that I was looking at one from a more budget end of the
market one from higher up, after some investigation the budget branded model
had a higher customer satisfaction on "quality of wash" and "service life"
despite both units being identical bar the control panel. I don't for a
second believe the budget one was better but it didn't have the major
"premium" brand image or £250 price excess so perceptions as to what you will
receive were a factor.

Ed Chilada wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:44:55 -0400, "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
><elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote:
>
>>It also comes as no surprise that Audi is foisting yet another piece of
>>shit onto the automotive world. Oh, it drives like nobody's
>>business-when it's working.
>
>Funnily enough, I'd have thought that the Audi reputation to exactly
>the opposite of what you're saying. They're ultra reliable

Huh? "Ultra" reliable? Audi?

Put down the crack pipe.