angrypengu

Crowd sourced effort 😊

Anyone want to take a stab?

ajmilan

Geez. Took a year of Engineering Statistical Analysis at Purdue U decades ago but chucked those books several moves ago. So, if someone else can look into 1 and 2 standard deviations on the combined and exclusive data in the two tabs that would be appreciated. I'm at the back end of a funeral for my father-in-law so will be out of pocket for a few more days.

flowerbunny

I'm at 41k on my Q8 and this just happened to me today, so it is good to know I'm average

hcuorg

So I just have to remember to flash my car back to stock at 39999 miles.

kelisko

They'd still know you flashed it before.

hcuorg

It was more of a joke but I'm curious what would happen regardless. They can't pull the "your tune caused the BSG failure" card when every Q8 alternators are failing.

flowerbunny

My experience with this has been much better than most of those posted above--I made it to the dealer without the car dying; they got me in that same day; they had a loaner ready; and it was done within 2 days, all at no cost to me. AND the auto start/stop function is now much smoother than before which is an unexpected plus. So it seems Audi is capable of learning!

joelkamp

Well after thinking I was somehow going to be lucky and have the one working starter gen, mine finally went at just past 50K miles. Had a start-stop electrical malfunction, called the dealer and had an appointment and loaner for the next morning. On the drive back home everything lit-up and the car shut down, defiantly a scary experience. Was able to start the next morning and limp into the dealer. Similar experience to flowerbunny, car was in for a few days and back as good as new. Also seeing better working start-stop so they must have done some type of software update which is encouraging. I really like the car and have been planning to keep it long term, but now feel like I have another ticking time-bomb. Like everyone else trying to figure out if they really have actually done anything such that we should expect this to last more than another 40-50K Miles. If this were just a standard $1200 alternator repair would probably not be a big deal, but it sounds like they are going to get us for $5-6K the next time around. Hoping that by then maybe there will be some ability to get this done at a secondary shop and not having to pay the dealer prices.

hcuorg

Did the dealer say that the first alternator replacement is the only one they will cover? The warranty states 7 years/unlimited miles.

My car is tuned so I don't expect them to cover my replacement. Which I may fight them on. Regardless, I have a spare alternator in my closet that I plan to ask my indie if they can swap it out if/when I need to if my dealer won't cover it.

Retiredone

Thank you to all the contributors on this forum, I've learned a lot since I got my Q8 back in 2019. The prospect of a failure was too much and I sold my Q8 with 24,000 miles. Good luck to all, hopefully Audi will find a solution