2000 Audi A4 from North America - Comments

No fuse for the foglights.

No caps on the tires air nozzle.

Both headlights have gone out within 11,000 miles.

Crack in the washer fluid tank.

Rattle inside the A/C.

Clutch went at 10,000 miles.

Passenger side speaker has blown 3 times.

Rattle in the right front side of the car.

Check engine light went on.

Coolant gauge broke.

Fuel pump needed to be replaced.

The dealer (KEYES AUDI in Van Nuys) and AUDI USA have been horrible to deal with on this. I opened a complaint over 2 months ago and nothing has been done to correct my issues.

The car has repeatedly been in the shop as several of the problems listed above have been in for repair 3-4 times.

The rattle in the A/C drives me crazy and I have had to shut the bass completely off because it causes a rattle in right side of the car - (this has been in the shop 4 times!)

I have an A4. In the past year the power steering has leaked fluid, the air conditioning has leaked coolant, and the battery has gone dead every time I didn't run it for 2 or more days.

The dealer does the least possible to patch it up and send me back on the road.

During the past 20 years my immediate family and I have owned three Audi cars. We bought them because they were stylish, comfortable, and performed well (when they ran). But two of the three have turned out to be lemons. Never again.

Well, what can I say. I have a 98 A4 Quattro and also have the rattle which was never fixed. I also have a problem with smoke, yes, smoke coming out of my hood. I brought this several times to the dealer and they claim to have done a number of things to the car and solve the problem. They say that there is no problem, yet I am sitting with the service tech and the car smells of burnt oil to the point that you can't breath in the car.

I brought the car to an independant service shop and we found that the valve cover gaskets were leaking on to the exhaust manifold (The dealer billed AUDI USA for the job and it was never done).

I also had a rear differential oil leak that the dealer supposedly took care of. Well, it is still leaking and we found out that contrary to the dealers claim that they changed the seals... the job was never done. The car is great BUT THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE THE DEALER. And by the way... you have to wait for about 30 - 45 days before you can get an appointment to bring in the car. Unfortunately, they are the only dealer here in Santa Clara County! I for one am having BIG second thoughts about buying another AUDI...

Jamelian@aol.com

I have a 2000 Audi A4 that has had the majority of problems listed above. The first problem since owning the car was the headlights burned out at least once every 3 months. After 2002 they stopped burning out because I replaced the bubs myself. The mechanics dirty hands contributed to the halogen bulbs burning out prematurely. The secondary fuel pump went out just in time before the 3 year bumper to bumper warranty expired. The dealer fixed it and it has been wining at start-up ever since then. The wining eventually goes away after the engine warms up. The dealer refuses to fix it because it is now out of warranty. Starting in 2005, The engine light also comes on when we go on long trips. It cost us $45.00 for a diagnostics to tell us that the O2 sensors are bad. We replaced the O2 sensors and the light came back on. It turns out the main computer was bad. The independent guy said that since it has less than 80,000 miles on it, Audi should cover the $2,000.00 repair bill, meaning that Audi would cover the computer and should back track and cover the cost of the O2 sensors that failed because of the computer. Audi refused to do that and said that it was up to the independent guy to change those out not Audi. Audi wanted to do the whole job themselves including changing out the O2 sensors, so they could charge us $3,500.00.

The windshield washer bottle was cracked also. It was leaking near the washer pump. We had to take the car back to the dealer 3 times to prove that it was indeed cracked and leaking. The dealer didn't believe us at first. They said the high pressure pump that washes the headlights is contributing to running out of washer fluid so quickly. We had to do our own diagnostics by searching down through all the clutter and I found the problem. Not the expert mechanic who has gone through the extensive certified training. The engine light is on once again and the diagnostics says its the secondary fuel pump again! Overall it is a beautiful, wonderful car that I'm sad to have to sell because of all the extreme technology's and expenses involved in it. The problem I have is that all car manufacurers are designing engine systems that have emission controls that adjust to the age of the engine. That is why most cars do not need tune-ups until 100,000 miles. They can't weed out all of the flaws that contribute to engine lights coming on all the time. If they step back about 20 years and use that emission control technolgy of time, they would probably have more reliability then they do today. Oh yeah!It would cost less too!

GF.