That is a good price. Audi dealer surprises, now that should make headlines!

 

AAA just picked the car up and shes off to the dealer. Thanks all

 

As dealerships do, they did just call with a little nickel and diming. They want to replace the tensioners and 'may as well' do the belt so now the new total is $1300.

Not as great a deal as before but I was prepared to go up to $1500.

Oh well

 

That's more like it!

From experience, I have found that once my service manager knew I was pretty hands on with my 2.7T and was doing my own timing belt, alignments, etc., he pretty much backed off on trying to nickel and dime me.

One prime example was when I had a coolant leak from my ECT sensor's O ring and he came back with a price of about $150 to fix it. I told him that was absurd because there were literally no tools required to swap it out. He came back with a price of $0. I scored a new sensor off of him too for that price.

I guess it's luck of the draw when it comes to Audi dealerships.

 

Did that solve your problem cause I have an 01 a4 1.8t and we had no heat this was 20 000 kms after having timing belt pump service done by dealer the diagnosis I got from the mech not at dealer said checked everything can only be the pump me trusting this guy had checked everything else he proceeded to chsnge pump gave it back to me with nice heat pumping and the pump he took out from dealer that looks brand new still. That being said first drive afterward up north it started to overheat on me Never had that problem before ?? Then the heat slowly faded away so I start to ask some questions with another mechanic at the shop that did the second water pump and after they did the pump there was still no heat so they flushed the heater core boom heat hoping I wouldn't find out well I did cause I'm not an idiot and got my money back then did the heater core cause that's what I thought was my problem bad coolant flow. Well that fixed the heat issue for now I haven't driven it much cause the coolant light keeps coming on and the temp is still goin up to 100c so I talk to mechanic that put in the second pump and he said it was different then the one he took out that dealer put in and the one e put in impellers where bigger and metal as opposed to dealer one which was plastic. Any ideas please it's my wife's car and she driving me nuts cause she have to drive my hemi and she don't like paying the fuel I've tossed everything at this car over winter ac fan clutch fan all trying to fix the heat and over heatin issue I think I have the heat solved after the heater core but I haven't driven it far and it's summer now so would I be right in thinking that the pump that was swapped is causing my over heating cause it never did it before and I have the pump still and looks brand new ?? Please help I'm so tired I this car right now
Thanks
Brad

 

I would agree. The $1300 isn't to bad (probably could have saved $200 to $300 elswhere; maybe). Might as well get it done now and you should be set for another 100k miles.

Now, that $250 they want for new muffler bearings. That might not be a good deal

 

Got the car back - with tax it was $1400. Expensive, but the dealership was fast and efficient. From drop-off to pick-up was only 2 days.

New pump, new belt, new tensioners and new coolant.

Car is running great again and best of all, I got my weekend back

Thanks all.