Vorsprung durch Technik

Interesting and tbh surprising that in that survey the highest single repair figure was for an Audi!
 
That's not surpising IMO. They're an expensive brand so repairs to audis are going to be more than their VAG siblings.

My boss loves his audis but even he admits they're not the most reliable cars. He had a TTRS and his wife had an a3 TDI both with DSG boxes. Both gearboxes failed within a few months of eachother, costing about £8k combined. The TT got chopped in for a brand new RS4 6 months ago and its been back to Audi for something (don't know what) already

They have the perceived quality thing because the doors go thunk but it doesn't surprise me that they're not hugely reliable or cheap to repair
 
These surveys always seem flawed to me if you look at them at anything other than the highest, broadest level.

Given that most Audi's have a very very very close vw equivalent which in turn has a Skoda/seat equivalent they always seem too far apart in the rankings.

It's no news to anyone that Japanese cars are the most reliable, followed by those who primarily make and sell lots and lots of simple cars etc
 
iaind said:
That's not surpising IMO. They're an expensive brand so repairs to audis are going to be more than their VAG siblings.

My boss loves his audis but even he admits they're not the most reliable cars. He had a TTRS and his wife had an a3 TDI both with DSG boxes. Both gearboxes failed within a few months of eachother, costing about £8k combined. The TT got chopped in for a brand new RS4 6 months ago and its been back to Audi for something (don't know what) already

They have the perceived quality thing because the doors go thunk but it doesn't surprise me that they're not hugely reliable or cheap to repair
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I was surprised given the survey contains "real" premium and as such hugely expensive cars such as Porsche, Bentley etc where such bills would be arguably more expected, not on an Audi (with a few exceptions in the model range, they are not that expensive in the grand scheme of things)

flibbage0 said:
RS6 by any chance?
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Possibly (I was thinking R8)
 
It's based on warranty direct claims though. There are probably much fewer Porsche owners buying a warranty direct warranty than those people with A4 diesel S lines - that'll skew the figures too
 
I've got a VW Golf which has caused me no end of headaches. I've also got a Honda CR-V which is beautiful to drive and never causes me problems.

Golf is going soon to be replaced with the new Civic.
 
Housey said:
Most likely, they are a vicious car to run properly.*

*Run properly means NOT having a 10 year old one, having Dave the spanner fix it and running it with a hole in the exhaust and lots of lights on the dashboard...
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Is it the same with all RS Audi's? I've heard about coking issues in some of them so that might explain the relatively high repair bill.
 
To be fair my Audi TT has had no repair works or history of repairs at all (well, anything that is the fault of the car). It is now 3 years old with 52k miles.
 
I seem a similar article in a paper a few months back about diesel BMW's and VW's outside of warranty age are some of the most unreliable cars in the used car market.
There's no denying Audi, Bmw, Merc make quality cars that are a cut above most of the competitors but the fact that most people nowadays seem to think anything that's not German is going to fall to bits and breakdown is just a joke. It's worse that VW are now put into the same category as the premium brands with there bland boring Golf's and Polo's. I know quite a few people who have had endless problems with Golf's that they insist on buying over the Focus. It's interesting to see Ford so high up on the reliability list as people like to slate Ford's when in my opinion the petrol versions are up there with the most reliable
 
I always love it when people extrapolate their individual experiences of reliability to be representative of a whole model/make of car.
 
From looking at the top 100 it appears that making reliable cars goes hand in hand with making dull, tedious, boring cars.
 
Gaygle said:
From looking at the top 100 it appears that making reliable cars goes hand in hand with making dull, tedious, boring cars.
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Which is of no surprise given the majority of people want dull, tedious and boring cars that get them from a to b reliably?
 
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