A couple days ago my wife was driving home from work when she called to let me know the blower was not working for the A/C, neither was the turn signals (hey you gotta have your priorities on a hot day). It turns out the lights didn't work either and any number of other things. I had coincidently already had an appointment to get yet two more recall notices worked on so no big deal; usually there is a 2 week wait just to get a lousy appointment time.
I drop the car off as the appointment was during rush hour and called them the next afternoon to learn that they had decided that my turn signal unit was broken and the A/C control unit was blown. I asked the service rep. how it was that these two separate components could both be fried simutaneously to which he did not no the answer. Well, to repair the parts is $1650; the A/C unit is over $1000 alone. I just got a new $6000 transmission last year and am up for the 90k service that runs $1700 and change; these three items alone are almost what the car is worth given the terrible resale value.
I've read this before and I feel the same way; I love my Audi and I hate it too. Strange thing was, I was already making calculations in my head for the Audi A6 3.2 model while I still had the service rep on the phone.
To make a short story even longer, my true purpose of this post is to ask anyone if they know that an Audi dealer (Jim Ellis Audi) would be willing to replace parts when they know the root cause is something so they might make more money? Sounds like a naive question that I already know the answer for, but I'd like to think that they would be beyond that.
Best regards,
Tony Heffner