Cant decided what to do regarding my poorly/now fixed Audi A7

LordVader

LordVader

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Brought my A7 from Audi a couple years back. LOVE my car but just over a month ago had my first ever breakdown on the motorway. Not an experience I would wish on anyone its not nice!

Started with an yellow "Electrical system malfunction" & "Start/stop malfunction"

Audi assist came out and tested what they could. Said battery low (under 12v) and not charging. Tested the battery itself and that was accepting charge fine.
Suspected starter generator issue. Mine is the 55 TFSI with the 48v hybrid system.

Said it should be fine to drive to Audi as its only 10 miles away from where i live. Unfortunately it didn't make it and had every red warning message known to man when I was on the M1 and then completely shutdown. Got it recovered to Audi Leicester. Lucky I was JUST inside my approved used warranty.

Took them a few days to diagnose the issue, which was the starter generator failed (£1500+ part alone!!:eek:), then a few more days to get Audi to authorise it under warranty. Then came the part is on back order and no ETA when it will come in. Managed to get a courtesy car out of them (eurocar) after a couple weeks which was a real pain without a car.

Finally after just over a month with them the parts came in on Monday and got the car back yesterday. Seems all fine.

Just cant decide what to do now. Is this the start of things just starting to break? I can buy an Audi extended warranty for £65ish pm with £250 excess to cover is anything massive goes wrong.

Nothing out there really floats my boat at the moment and everything is just massively expensive/long wait times.



 
Yeah if you've lost faith in it i'd change personally. Some cars i've never trusted for whatever reason which makes the ownership rather rubbish.

The reality is it was probably just a one off bad part but then you never know, it could be a Friday afternoon car and this is just the start of a long line of electrical gremlins. Or it could be fine for 100k miles with nothing but oil changes... you just don't know. unfortunately electrically complex modern cars are not all that reliable on the whole, the German ones seem worse than most (apart from Landrover :D) on this front.
 
Take out the warranty, keep car - will cost you more to change unless you downgrade (but then what could be lurking with a replacement car?)
 
Ok I get the picture where everyone is going here .

Probably just panicking abit, first time in 18 years of having cars anything big has gone wrong so suppose I have been very lucky
 
I have always had an extended warranty for any Audi I have had over that has become three years old and they have, invariably, always needed. them. I would get the warranty and continue to enjoy your lovely car.
 
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LordVader said:
Ok I get the picture where everyone is going here .

Probably just panicking abit, first time in 18 years of having cars anything big has gone wrong so suppose I have been very lucky
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If I got airmiles for every mile I pushed a knackered car I could probably circumnavigate the planet on a G6.
 
In fairness, Audi do seem quite high on the unreliability list. Best get that warranty sorted and hope it covers most things
 
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