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Old 09-19-2005, 04:42 PM
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Default Today confirms that I own an Audi...

Rear wheel bearing is shot. Front driver's control arm is squeeking, TRE's are bad, starting to get dead pixels on the trip computer, and i'm not even mentioning a few things here and there. Still, I love my car to death but can Audi build a reliable car for god sakes??
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how many miles?
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Default Haha, Second everything but the pixles

and tack on some coilpack issues, a bad outside temp sensor, and a fried AC condensor.

Among other things.

Oh, and Im close to 120
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At least the TREs and the control arms can be done at the same time.
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as much as i love my car. id have to say they are POS
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83K on the clock.
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Default Its a fine german engineered POS. My friend's 88 MR2 has over 220k troublefree and abused...

miles. Little to no maintenance, yet, I still love my car.My dad thinks mines is a POS and he drives a 96 Taurus. No probs to date on the ford.
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97K here and believe me im feeling the pain...
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97,000 miles
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Default i know what you mean. i feel the same way.

However, how can you speak of fine engineering to someone else, if they see that your car always breaks down.


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