DCS

yeah, me. 7400mi on the car and from what I can tell, another coil went bad. Unfortunatley, this time I'm about 5 hours from home.

When I speak w/the dealer I'll ask them to replace ALL of them. If they give me some song and dance like my local dealership did last time then it's time for me to tear someone a new A.

Here's the basics of NJ's lemon law:

"The Lemon Law allows the manufacturer a "reasonable amount of time" to repair or correct the defect. A "reasonable amount of time" means three repair attempts for the same defect or a total of 20 cumulative days out of service because of one or more defects or repairs."

So from what I can tell, since this is coil pack attempt 2, I have 2 more to go for lemon law status since that makes the total more than "3 reasonable attempts". Or, since my EVAP valve caused my car to be out of commission, I can add up that fix, plus my 2 coil packs and see how many more days I have until 20.

Then Audi will be hearing from me. I'm reasonable when cars have problems. It doesn't **** me off that the coil packs go bad, what really gets me fired up is how this is being handled.

They should either recall the part or replace ALL of them with a guarantee that the problem has been resolved.

A4Most

This seems to be be an all too frequent problem. I have an '02 3.0 6sp (duh, it's in my sig). Build date is 01/02. It's the wife's car, with only 2500 miles on the odo. I'm just waiting for the first coilpack to fail, then I'm raisin' holy sh*t with the dealer. I've had too many problematic Audi's (with the exception of the 98.5 TSM) to have to futz with this kinda stuff again.