just put together all the docs i have for my car.. repair wise.. good lord.. since I got it, i put 4k into it.. and i had it since feb 2003. The number next to date is mileage.. The price is labor and parts.. excluding tax.


10/06/00 56797 52,500 SCHEDULED MAINTAINANCE HBL TYSONS 133.36
10/06/00 56797 REPLACE TANK SENDING UNIT (FUEL GAUGE WAS INACCURATE) HBL TYSONS 270.57
10/06/00 56797 R+I BOTH REAR DRIVE AXLES, REPLACE BOTH FLANGE DRIVE OIL HBL TYSONS 465.68
10/06/00 56797 REPLACE LEFT OUTER TIE ROD END HBL TYSONS 211.85

01/25/01 60364 60,000 SCHEDULED SERVICE EURASIAN 551.48

09/06/01 68288 REPLACE THEROMSTAT, WATER PUMP, TIMING BELT EURASIAN 695.09
09/06/01 68288 REPLACE A/C CUT OFF SWITCH (TEMP SENSOR) EURASIAN 123.00

09/28/01 68561 REPLACE RIGHT OUTER TIE ROD BOOT/ALIGNMENT(FRONT 89.00) EURASIAN 234.69

04/29/02 75022 75,000 SCHEDULED MAINTANENCE EURASIAN 287.90
04/29/02 75022 REPLACE REAR BRAKE PADS AND ROTORS EURASIAN 344.10
04/29/02 75022 REPLACE VALVE COVER GASKETS EURASIAN 224.90

06/23/04 2 FRONT ROTORS ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE 342.90
06/23/04 2 REAR ROTORS ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE 274.62
06/23/04 REPLACE RIGHT INNER AND OUTER TIE ROD ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE 278.15

10/14/04 104383 R+R FRONT DRIVE AXLE, R+R OUTER CV JOINT VOLKSWERKS 498.72
10/14/04 104383 R+R COOLANT RESERVOIR VOLKSWERKS 60.56
10/14/04 104383 R+R POWER STERRING RACK VOLKSWERKS 1,248.00
10/14/04 104383 ANGLE CUT REAR BRAKES VOLKSWERKS 106.50

02/02/05 107217 BATTERY VOLKSWERKS 115.84
02/02/05 107217 4 TIRES, MOUNT AND BALANCE VOLKSWERKS 369.46
02/02/05 107217 SUSPENSION SWAY BAR LINK LEFT+RIGHT VOLKSWERKS 102.70

02/02/05 107217 CONTROL ARMS LOWER LEFT REAR, LOWER RIGHT REAR, LOWER FRONTS VOLKSWERKS 1,010.35
ONLY LOWER REARS ON SERVICE RECALL… GOT 481.00 BACK FROM AUDI

03/11/05 107,911 REPLACED ALL SPARK PLUGS F1000-51773 AND WIRES F1020-50483 BUYAUTOPARTS.COM 110.00
03/11/05 107,911 REPLACED AIR FILTER B1000-82252 BUYAUTOPARTS.COM 23.76

05/20/05 108,890 A/C RECHARGE AND SERVICE 1 R134a CAN COLUMBIA PIKE SHELL 96.50
CAN GO BACK IF FREON ISN'T COLD ENOUGH



The car is an 96 audi quattro... can u guys see anything that should be done soon as a preventative maintanence?? thanks in advance..

 

I doubt all this work was necessary. I get my oil changed ever 10K mi. using Mobil 1 0W-40 with filter $40. Change spark plugs with NGK platinums every 40K mi. Change air filter every 40K mi. Change pollin filter ever 30K mi. Paid $709 for the timing belt and water pump at 84K mi. Wheel bearing went at 84K mi and cost $235. I added R134a for $25 at 86K mi. The dealer gave me new brake pads at 50K mi. Replaced tires at 53K mi.

 

You could have done a lot of that maitenance yourself and saved the money.

 

rear rotors twice??

seems your getting charged an awful lot for most of that stuff. maybe its just the area you live in.

 

i only did it once.. didnt notice it was done before ,but it was also 2 years in between.. . im so glad i broke it down like this in excel.. before, it was just a huge stack of invoices.
all this is in virginia. .. dunno if that helps..

 

just think if you could have put all that money into modding your car instead of fixing it... []

 

jeezz.. dont remind me... i just want it running in tip top shape..

i just ordered a vag reader on ebay... hopefully i will be able to do some work on the car myself...

 

the eBay vag readers have a bad rep... but whatever.

To who said they change their oil every 10K with mobil 1... should bump it up to every 5K dude... with the sludge issues on the 1.8T's... doesnt make sense to stretch out the oil changes.

And before anybody jumps at me about synthetic lasting longer... spare me, I know... but it's still much better practice to change your oil every 3 - 5 K AND use synthetic... means your car has great oil, all the time. I change mine every 5K kilometers... which is like... 3100 miles. I use royal purple synthetic, but once this case is gone, moving to either castrol syntec or mobil 1.

 

Headshock - My car uses standard oil. I'm ready to switch to synthetic at my next oil change. I don't need to do anything special to switch right?

 

sorry about misspelling the name