I am not having a good time with my car. I like the car a lot but it’s been one thing after another. I am the second owner and had the car for about 2 1/2 years. I have 103,000 on it and so far I have replace the crank position sensor because that failed and left me on the side of the road. The fuel pump fail, left me on the side of the road. The driver side window regulator failed. The AC compressor went. After I replaced the fuel pump, the passenger side of the engine started knocking really loud. The car ran fine but had a very loud knocking noise. Well the noise recently stopped and now I have a flashing check engine light and the car runs very bad. Idle is very lumpy like a Harley. I’m scheduled to have the timing belt replaced. I bought all the parts to do it myself but with the engine issue, I’m having a local shop take care of it. To make it worse, I was driving my E30 M3 as my backup car and the clutch cylinder went out on that and I had to get that car towed home. I’m starting to get a pile of German cars in my yard. We’ll see what the issue. Sorry for the rant.
Oh man the 3.0 boys are not having much luck at the moment. I guess thefe is no truth in engineering…
Have you scanned for codes yet
I’m going to go find some real wood to knock on, but everything is ok here for now. One O2 sensor gave a code last week that was intermittent, but it hasn’t come back yet. Just need it to last until I get my car inspected, and then I’ll change it out when I get a chance and some more $$ to buy new sensors as I’ll just replace both front O2s.
Well I got an update from the mechanic and apparently the tapping noise in the engine was a stuck lifter. The lifter stopped making noise because it broke and broke a lobe on the cam. So now I am getting a new lifter and cam along with the timing belt service. I ordered a magnetic oil drain plug because the mechanic could only retrieve about 20% of the broken pieces. I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope the for the best with the rest of the metal floating around. All this because my fuel pump died.
damn dude, I"m so sorry to hear that. Genuineaudiparts has new cams for 350 and new lifters are 36$each incase you are paying more.
Damn that sucks.
Which cam is it intake or exhaust and which side of the engine is it.
It’s the exhaust side. Is that better or worse?
Did it wear on all 4 cams or just the exhaust??
DAAMN!! Yours makes mine look like I don’t even have a problem!
I bet with new cams and lifters our motors are going to puuur :), how many are you doing, all 4? or just the exhaust??
That E30 is BEAUTIFUL!, So you have a 740il and 3.0 for daily? and the E30 is your track? Have you even considered doing the front USP on the 3.0! Red USP’s are hot!
I just had the one exhaust cam and 4 lifters replaced. It’s so quiet and smooth now. I keep listening for something to be wrong. The 740il died so I bought the A4. The E30 M3 is the first car I bought and have had it for 14 years now. It’s completely stock and never tracked. I’m going to keep the Audi stock. I’m in the keep it running and maintain it mode. That’s expensive enough.
E30 M3? Wow. Neat.
The car is all fixed and purrs like a kitten. Well almost. I got the car home and noticed it was leaking oil so I took it back to the shop. The valve cover was leaking at the gasket in one corner. They checked it out, put it back together, torqued the bolts and snapped one. So now I’m just waiting for the part to come in. Like I said the car is cursed.
And the driver side window started the crunching noise. I replaced the regulator about 5-6 months ago.
I believe I am cursed by my A6. It all started with what was assumed to be a cracked transmission, it was just the seals. While I had everything apart, I decided I would change all of the gaskets on the engine and clean it up. After giving up several times, I finally got the upper oil pan, after breaking 2 ears off of it because I forgot 2 bolts, and I also broke my oil pump drive chain…dont ask. The car was previously wrecked as well. I replaced the steering rack 2 weeks after I bought it, the original one was cracked in half, and both transmission mounts, the cast ones and poly one were broke as well.
Why not sell these cars if they are truly cursed or lemony?
In my case anything else will cost me more money. The car is paid off in 18 months and I need no car payments so I can afford for my wife to get her master’s. I love the car, I just hate that there is something constantly going wrong with it. I just have to deal with it and drive it until my wife is done school.
car payments or no car payments that’s kinda irrelevant
you have an asset (trade in value of your car) and a liability (your loan). The net value is the asset minus the liability (your equity). You then have 18 months of ‘payments’ that you are committed to the situation as well.
If we say your car is worth $5,000…and the loan is still $1800 and your monthly car payment is 150/month, that means your car’s net value is $3200 and you are willing to commit another $1800 to the situation. That’s $5,000. So you can go buy something that costs $5,000 all in and be in the exact same boat (unless you pay aggregious taxes and fees like we do in Canada).
Too many people feel like they can’t sell till their ‘payments’ are done. I don’t get that. I also don’t get why people say ‘my payments are done in December, so I will be looking for a new car’. Why not just drive the car you just bought over the last 3-4-5 years? The payment period isn’t a guide for when you should or shouldn’t buy a new car…it’s not indicative of a good time to make a change. It’s just indicative of how long it took you to comfortable pay for this car.
Personally I would keep a car for a long ass time if possible. Until the cost/benefit starts to get a little haywire. You appear to be extremely annoyed with your car…to the point you called it ‘cursed’. Frankly I wouldn’t drive a ‘cursed’ car. I’d exorcise that curse, pronto!
You kind of reinforced my thinking. Say I did owe $5,000. I’m not going to find a one owner car that is as fun to drive, in as nice condition and problem free for that price. My car is not problem free by far but if I buy another car it will have it’s problems too. In the end I want no car payments so I agree and I will drive it as long as I can. I would keep every car I owned if I could.