Ok first off this is for my older brother, I used to drive the A4 he currently owns and im tryn to help him out with this. First off its a 1.8t 2002 a4. The oil light went on, he pulled into a gas station asap, about 3 min drive. put oil in the car and 1 mile down the road the car just shut off. Towed the car to JackDaniels Audi where they have been doing nothing but run arounds the car. They told us the timing belt is off, an cylinder needs to be replaced... if thats even possible maybe they meant piston.... and a sheer pin snapped, not sure which one if there is more then one. So they are telling us its related to an accident a while back which makes all but non ****** sense. My conclucion has been this, The engine ran low on oil due to a recall they had on the car they supposedly fixed, the engine ran dry and right before the sheer pin snapped the timing belt went, and the piston dry humped the shyt out of the cylinder. Let me know what u think. What could cause the pin to snap? set the timing belt off, and destroy a cylinder.

 

sounds like the typical oil sludge issue. They should drop the oil pan befoer anything and go from there. Also search Jack Daniels on here, their name has been posted before on here and i think vwvortex. Not sure why, but i think they have been known for bad service and what not. Also search for amze, he got a new engine for his a4 of i think the same year for a sludge problem. G/L, you will need it.

 

im gunna start keeping a tally. hmm.....thats 2 oil sludging 1.8t's today

 

Ahhh man, well where would the oil sludge come from? kinda odd... oil was just changed. this also happend right as the cold winter weather came. Oh yeah and yes Jackdaniels are all a bunch of morons, as you can tell they havnt manage to say anything about the oil, which would be the first place to start with engine problems such as this.

 

It will basically clog the oil pickup. They need to drop the pan to be sure.

 

The only thing is that im pretty sure there going to lie to us about it. Apparently there was a huge recall on engine sludge for the a4 b6. So they havnt mentioned anything about the oil which makes me worry there trying to hide it. I mean most people would look at the oil immedialty with a related probelem like this. I fear i will tell them its oil sludge look at the pan and they will just give me a brush off "no" not the oil. So is there evidence left behind they cant cover up incase have to have some one else look at it? these guys are douschbags so i wouldnt put it past them.

 

You cant hide oil sludge. It will be all on the oil pick up. If you dont trust them, go down there when you tell them and make them let you look at it when they remove the pan.

 

wut oil u run?

 

what ever oil they use down there, they always took care of oil changes etc. I my self run mobile 1 nuthing but synthetic, something my brother obviously doesnt understand rolf.

 

wut ever they use down where? at jackdaniel's? well if u bro doesn't understand that the 1.8t engine is going to sludge if he doesn't use full synthetic oil then he should get a diff car. also, i believe the dealerships have to fix ur car if u have full proof of running full synthetic oil for the last certain amount of miles. forgot how many. u need the receipts and all that crap. looks like ur bro has to fork out so $$$$ cuz he's too cheap lol. like they say, treat others as others would treat u. or something like dat.