G-Can

look for what? God damn clunking every couple months, I had full 5 months of silence until now its banging again, seems that balljoint went. And I dont buy cheap parts, either OEM or Meyle/Lemforder/Sachs

I am convinced these cars are fundamentally designed wrong, geometry of suspension is I AM CONVINCED putting forrces in wrong places and making them fail faster.
And Ive read about this elsewhere as well.

AudiAllTheWay

Something is not right. Maybe aluminum corroded upright needs replaced? Post pics

Sallad

Sounds like your shop didn't do the job correctly. No suspension component should only last 5 months, even a cheap ebay parts should last for years.

G-Can

maybe it was a year. of silence. not even 10k km. should check If I feel like it. I lost interest.

shop is fine. car is not. Its for sale. nobody budging.

AudiAllTheWay

One assembly issue that quickly tears up new control arm bushings is tightening the hardware with the bushing clocked in the unloaded suspension position, or any position other than the loaded suspension correct position.

Recommend to discuss the ongoing matter with your shop. The shop has the ability to diagnose failed parts and explain repair options. Clunking suspensions with undiagnosed failing parts are a safety issue which should be considered reason to stop driving the car until properly diagnosed / repaired.

Clunking and worn suspension parts are an automatic fail of vehicle Safety Inspection in Canada.

Regarding your sale, what is the year and mileage? Do you have valid Safety Inspection documentation? How much are you asking? I may know some Toronto area folks who would be interested if you can provide more details of your sale.

urs6_ma

@kelisko Bored with that boring Japanese reliability? Is that why you're still here...or did you just miss us?

It's okay, we still love you. Stay as long as you want!

Avantly

+1 to AudiAllTheWay's post regarding the proper method to torque bolts for suspension bushings. I cringe when I see a shop tighten them down in the unloaded position... I cringe once again when they lower the vehicle and tear up the new bushings...

kelisko

As a matter of fact, I was busy enjoying my reliable Japanese vehicle. I went on a 5,000+ Km trip and came back fresh. Your other friend in the Q7 forum who swore by his great Audi's reliability and who contradicted anybody else complaining about their excessive oil consumption or other issues ended up ditching his Audi and buying a Japanese car as well, did you notice? You could be next you know? You never know

AudiAllTheWay

Someone changing brands is not exactly unheard of 🤷‍♂️

Report back with your maintenance list after your Suzuki reaches 250,000KM like your $30K US used A7 Project Car so we can make an honest and fair comparison 👍

G-Can

oh man do not go there, you will dig yourself even deeper. Now you want to say that german cars are great for high mileage haha you can buy another suzuki for maintenance bills for the same period of kms.

Do you want me to list maintenance that I had to do on my 250000km Audi? You really wanna go there? Really?