Go home Audi

[Ronin13]

but Jim, I thought you said the bmw was the overpriced hyundai?

How dare anyone compare one of the greatest foreign car makers to the "Korean Ford." Sounds like jealousy in Jim's assessment of BMW....

How much is that little fix gonna cost to repair for that Audi owner? My buddy has a 2000 Audi A6 that needed a few "minor" fixes (I think water pump and O2 sensor) and it was extremely costly- enough that he said he's done with Audi, then went and bought a 2005 Mercedes... Go figure!

[tmleadr03]

What did it need? An oil change?

Actually blew the engine. Which I suppose is better then blowing a nut...

[tmleadr03]

You have to remove the whole front of the car to get to the engine? Nothing like easy to maintain is there.

It is how you do the timing belt as well...

[ChuckNorris]

It is how you do the timing belt as well...

Holy Crap!

[tmleadr03]

Holy Crap!

You can just unbolt it and slip it forward about 2 inches, but by that point fuck it I am pulling it off to the side like this and sitting down and doing the belt that way.

[Gman]

Here's a really expensive VW.

[brianakell]

Funny, anyone think there's a car built by dodge chevy or ford in the last 10 years that's much easier to work on? Or that is not full of metric bolts? Hell the 90s chevy, dodge, ford were full of metric, if not metric and SAE on the same vehicle! Not to mention the metric headed SAE bolts. Or how about the SAE engine and metric chassis? Almost better, the mix of metric coarse and extra coarse threads on the same vehicle. At least the imports are consistent in the stuff they use! Well, toyota is anyway, pretty sure nissan is, honda is, and Ill best audi is along with VW.

[MarkCO]

A 4" grinder makes any bolt any size you want.

[sniper7]

Funny, anyone think there's a car built by dodge chevy or ford in the last 10 years that's much easier to work on? Or that is not full of metric bolts? Hell the 90s chevy, dodge, ford were full of metric, if not metric and SAE on the same vehicle! Not to mention the metric headed SAE bolts. Or how about the SAE engine and metric chassis? Almost better, the mix of metric coarse and extra coarse threads on the same vehicle. At least the imports are consistent in the stuff they use! Well, toyota is anyway, pretty sure nissan is, honda is, and Ill best audi is along with VW.

my 99 tahoe was easy to work on. My new 2013 silverado looks just as easy. the tahoe did suck when I rebuilt the engine due to the metric/SAE bolts. that was a PITA but it got done.

[brianakell]

my 99 tahoe was easy to work on. My new 2013 silverado looks just as easy. the tahoe did suck when I rebuilt the engine due to the metric/SAE bolts. that was a PITA but it got done.

Agreed. But thats a truck vs a car. Totally different animal.