Okay, just venting here. My car just cracked 205K (2008 A4). Water pump let's go two months ago. Not a huge deal as it was getting to the point where the timing belt needing replacing. Went ahead and did a lot of various other items at the same time (pulleys, belts, spark plugs, etc...). Car runs great afterwards, for three weeks. Then I have no power to accelerate. I replace the MAF with no joy. So, I resort to my shop. They find that a hose clamp broke under the air box causing boost loss. Semi expensive repair as they spent about an hour tracking down the issue. Three days, yes three days later I get a low coolant message. Stupid hose to the turbo split. Another $300 repair (had the shop handle the repair). Pick the car up Thursday evening and it runs fine all day Friday. Late Friday afternoon I go out and it won't crank. Just a single click, jumpstarting doesn't help either. A two back to the shop and the starter has gone out. Going to be an almost $500 repair (I don't have the space or tools to change it plus it looks like a PITA to do anyhow). I sure hope that is it for a bit. I am not complaining as I have had the car for 6 years with no issues. Vent over (I hope)!

 

Welcome to the high mileage Audi life. Not to belittle your issues, but my car needs a turbo...$1500ish.

Just commiserating.

ETA: Barely 100k miles on mine, too.

 

Mine is starting to suck oil, but not too bad yet. Figure that may be next. At 205k it is awful hard to complain about a split hose, a broken hose clamp, and a starter. If I owned an American made care I would have already replaced the starter two or three times! Just sucks to have it all happen one after another. Even with the issues I still love the car. Only way I would replace it would be with another Audi. Dealership near me had a 2011 S4 that looked kind of nice Ahhh, I think I will save myself the car payment, for now.

 

You got some good life out of that one, that's for sure. I'd consider an S3 (it's still the 2.0t 4-cyl platform), but I'm not sure I want the hassles associated with the S4. Have you seen the forthcoming RS3? *whistles*

As for my turbo, it's not too bad yet, so I'm going to just keep babying it along for a while until I have to do something about it. I'm still squeaking out 10-12psi under heavy boost, just not the 18 that's being requested (stage 1 tune). It's blowing a bit of oil, but 1qt in 5k miles isn't too bad.

It's paid for. Honestly, even if I dropped a brand new turbo in, that's like, what 3 months worth of car payments on a newer one? I'll drive it a while longer.

Also, nice to see you're still around, rhodes.