priced a quote for our Audi workshop techs

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
02/26/2019 at 01:34 • Filed to: Audi, Q7, TDi, quote, Worklopnik

PLUS add 25 hours labour at $200 per hour

customer with a 9 year old Audi Q7 TDi (with 304k km) filled diesel tank with Ad-blue and drove it less than 100 metres

Audi service manuals (ElsaPro) says to replace the lot

ouch!

DISCUSSION (36)

facw > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 01:51

Ouch. How much to drain the tank, refill, and hope? Did it drive less than $100 meters because the engine stopped running, or did they realize their mistake?

pip bip - choose Corrour > facw
02/26/2019 at 02:21

engine stopped running

facw > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 02:24

Hmm, that makes doing what’s cheap and seeing what happens sound less promising. Even if the components are still good (I’d imagine most of them would be), it would still be a ton of labor to take things apart drain and clean, and I’m sure at least something really does need to be swapped.

pip bip - choose Corrour > facw
02/26/2019 at 02:30

not sure i f you can clean it thoroughly enough.

better to set it alight and collect insurance

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 02:45

AUS$26,350 = GBPŁ14,350.

That’s the upper value of a used 2009-10 Q7 here.

With labour. @ 25xAUD$200 = AUD$5,000 = GBPŁ17,071.

Hell, that’ll get you a 2013 Q7, 3.0TDi S Line Plus Tiptronic Quattro

With just over half of the miles/kilometres on the clock.

Kinja'd!!!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend
02/26/2019 at 02:50

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/Audi-Q7-2009/SSE-AD-5889627/?Cr=0

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 03:13

That’s good going, that’s the rock bottom of a 2009 Q7 here .

Surely if similar cars are half the price of the work needed doing to fix it, the insurance would just right it off.

  > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 03:17

How did that even happen? A family friend of ours once filled his brand new diesel Mercedes with petrol. .. but ad blue ... d id they miss the bright blue cap right next to the filler?

Also $ 669.76 is one expensive “HOSE”.

pip bip - choose Corrour >
02/26/2019 at 03:31

how did it happen? no idea.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend
02/26/2019 at 03:39

i expect it will be towed away, never to be seen by us again.

but you just never know with some people

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 03:51

Best would be to get it written off, buy the similar age vehicle for less, buy back from the insurance the write off and part it out and scrap the rest.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 04:49

Surely the owners would have to claim that under their insurance...

Cause that ain’t an economic repair.

Also...

How. The. Fornicate. Does. One. Do. That. You know...the AdBlue thing.

pip bip - choose Corrour > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/26/2019 at 05:01

i genuinely have no idea how they managed it.

first i knew of the vehicle was when the tech handed me the repair order, and said quote these parts.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 05:25

I do. They attempted to refuel at a dedicated truck stop....

pip bip - choose Corrour > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/26/2019 at 05:58

there are some nearby, so it could well be correct.

E92M3 > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 06:06

Why would it need a new radiator though, and a new module ?

pip bip - choose Corrour > E92M3
02/26/2019 at 06:26

module is inside the fuel tank (might be a lift pump)

radiator will actually be only a fuel cooler (typical Germans over engineering everything)

shop-teacher > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 06:46

Gadamn!

pip bip - choose Corrour > shop-teacher
02/26/2019 at 06:47

ooh yeah!

gotta be happy with the result

Mathnerd > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 09:29

Why in hell is the fuel filter more expensive than a fuel pump?

Ash78, voting early and often > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 09:55

The second most costly mistake in the history of VW Diesels.

You can’t spell Audi without “AUD” :D

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 10:09

$1000 fuel filter?!?!?

$3100 pump!?!?!

Holy shit that pump costs more than all 3 of my vehicles combined.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 10:54

And here I thought that was the price quote for a new headlight bulb.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/26/2019 at 11:22

I am not 100% sure on how coverage would play out on that. It isn’t really collision or comprehensive.

someoneatacura > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/26/2019 at 12:42

A Ford truck shop did this to my brothers F250 Super Duty.

There is these things called lube techs and apprentices. They fuck up. A lot.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 14:06

I believe it, I just hit a deer with my Audi, $9k-ish for headlight, hood, bumper, fender, 2 door skins.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness
02/26/2019 at 15:41

Fuel filter will be the complete housing

pip bip - choose Corrour > Mathnerd
02/26/2019 at 15:43

There’s more than one pump in the system

The main pump is line one on the quote

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/26/2019 at 16:00

Um, mine is too.

It cost me $15....

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
02/26/2019 at 16:38

I’d have to check my policy but I reckon that this sort of thing would be covered as accidental damage...of course as an at- fault claim.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/26/2019 at 17:00

Yeah, again I’m not sure. I don’t do and have never really done 1st party auto. Seems like it would be the scenario on how the shit got in your tank rather than what happens once in there.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness
02/27/2019 at 01:32

LOL

german engineering tax

pip bip - choose Corrour > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/27/2019 at 01:33

customer advised us today it will be towed away to be scrapped

pip bip - choose Corrour > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
02/27/2019 at 01:39

Kinja'd!!!

here’s a Vehicle Service Report for a Q5 for an EGR cooler failure

12 hours labour req to repair

this is why i dislike VAG products

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/27/2019 at 04:46

That's what happens when you piss in an Audi.

pip bip - choose Corrour > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/27/2019 at 04:50

needs to happen more often honestly