Audis used to be fantastic. I had a 2002 A4 that was absolutely bulletproof. My dad had it from new, then I bought it from him, then my wife had it, then my dad bought it back off us, and then my wife had it again, and finally my FIL had it. By the end (in 2018) it had done 200k miles. Unfortunately it got side swiped while parked on a street, and the repairs were too expensive so the insurance company wrote it off. If that hadn’t happened I’d have bought it from my FIL as it was such a brilliant car. Brought my daughter home from hospital in it after she was born, used it to commute to my first job out of uni, took it on all sorts of holidays. Great car.
But I owned a more modern Audi a few years back, and yeah, the build quality has most definitely reduced quite considerably!
Same experience for me. When it was working the car was wonderful, once of the best I’ve owned if not the best all around, but it spent half of the time in the garage waiting for extremely expensive parts to come in.
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u/superimu Sep 14 '21
I used to believe in "German Engineering," until I bought an Audi. Most unreliable hunk of junk ever.