Go home Audi

[Dave]

I thought it was bad when I had to take the intake manifold off my 00 Dodge Stratus to change out the back three spark plugs. Or take the front left tire off to change out the battery.

[tmleadr03]

I thought it was bad when I had to take the intake manifold off my 00 Dodge Stratus to change out the back three spark plugs. Or take the front left tire off to change out the battery.

I have done that, it is stupid.

[Great-Kazoo]

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!

Know what the cheapest thing in a BMW is? THE OWNER !

[jerrymrc]

GM was very good at 1/2-1/2 in the early 80's. At least most of the metrics were blue.

[roberth]

My sister had an Audi A4 convertible, nice car even though it was slow, cost her thousands in maintenance. That is the thing about Audi, BMW, Mercedes, they are nice cars but people forget that these companies expect the owner to maintain them religiously and that maintenance is expensive unless you can do it yourself.

[thvigil11]

Recently replaced the heater core in my late model F150. Had to remove the entire dash to get it out. Made me miss my old 60's powerwagon. You could SIT in the engine compartment and work on anything in there. Good old days of easy access.

[waxthis]

No, that's an over priced VW, for ya

Down boy.

[waxthis]

My sister had an Audi A4 convertible, nice car even though it was slow, cost her thousands in maintenance. That is the thing about Audi, BMW, Mercedes, they are nice cars but people forget that these companies expect the owner to maintain them religiously and that maintenance is expensive unless you can do it yourself.

Well Duhhhhhhh....

[clodhopper]

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.

I have had a jetta TDI for about a year now. At first I was frustrated about needing new tools to work on it, fancy fasteners like triple-squares and such. But after doing a fair number of involved repairs (bought it cheap knowing it needed some work) I am digging the simplicity. Having worked on Jeeps, Fords and Chevys, it always seemed like I needed to use every tool in the box to do a simple job. There is much less variety of fasteners on the jetta. 3 wrenches pulled the entire exhaust/turbo/EGR from the car and everything had space to be removed without pulling half of the rest of the car. There is certainly more forethought in regard to maintenance on the VW than is generally applied by the American big 3.

[roberth]

Well Duhhhhhhh....