marmadogg

Those issues should be easy to rectify from an engineering perspective

April

tolerance for encountering the issue(s) in the first place.

No car is perfect and everybody has a different idea of what makes a perfect car :-)

Delta Richard

Bad things can happen to anyone. I have been communicating with a member of the Infiniti M35/45 forum, who was offered a good deal on a BMW545, and took it, about 3 weeks ago. He just advised that he saw oil in his parking spot, and took it in. BMW dealer told him there was a hairline crack in the engine block, so they are going to have to replace his engine.
Needless to say, he told them he wanted a new car, to which they responded, "dream on". They said they will fix it, and thats it.
I had 7 BMWs between 1985 and 2002, and had many troubles with all but one of them. The three Infinitis I have had since 2002 were trouble free. Having only had the Audi a week, it is too early to have any experience, but I believe they are improving year by year, and expect my A6 to be fine. I leased, so don;t care if it has the odd glitch.

hemants

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hemants

Electrical problems for one.

TulsaTime

It had the aforementioned front-end problems, oil leaks (cam seals and rear seal &lt;out of warranty&gt Audi picked up 50% on the leaks. The front end was repaired under warranty. I also had to replace the instrument cluster-before the recall. You know what? The only car I've been happier to own is the '05 3.2 now in my stable.

Incendiary

Hasn't Audi usually been below avg. for VDS, but above for IQS?

hemants

What does that mean? It's reliable when you drive it off the lot but not after that?

Incendiary

I dunno, maybe quality of manufacturing is good but quality of parts isn't?

hemants

LOL