of worms! long story short, have a great wee audi, economical, reliable, sporty, i love it, when we bought it noticed that a couple of things didn't work, the door lock button and wing mirrors all opered on driver door, so took it to the local auto electrican we use (have used in the past for other vehicles) and what a mess someone has been in there and messsed about, so after a $500 + bill all was going, or so i thought but now airbag light is on and odometer reading has disappeared! so its back there and they don't know what the prob is! (that never happened before) why did I bother it doesnt affect the driving! grr at myself! god knows what it's gonna cost now!
jmma,
Sep 25, 3:11pm
Arm and leg (o:
intrade,
Sep 25, 3:12pm
dont know but who knows what the last owner messed abouts there.
tandj3,
Sep 25, 3:38pm
That's it exactly! I don't know why people try to do these things themselves.
cowlover,
Sep 25, 4:03pm
Don't ya just love fixing someone elses mess.I truely feel sorry for the sparky and the owner who is going to have to sacrifice a limb or two.
unclejake,
Sep 25, 4:06pm
You folks must have cheap limbs
johnf_456,
Sep 25, 4:08pm
Just one of the downsides of business ^
skiff1,
Sep 26, 6:32am
Good thing it's a euro, they are easy to work on parts are cheap and all of the mech who specialist are born again and live to work cheap!
johnf_456,
Sep 26, 8:23am
Agreed, parts are easy to source for sure.
scoobeey,
Sep 26, 10:24am
Glad ivegot my boring reliable coroola LOL
thewomble1,
Sep 27, 1:33am
blown fuse
supernova2,
Sep 27, 6:28am
Thats what I don't understand.If these things never break why are there any parts available at all let along cheeply!
geminidragon,
Sep 29, 8:06am
feel sorry for you ,been there done that
kdcentralni,
Sep 29, 10:14am
Hearda story the other day where a Merc had electrical issues and the owner didn't want to pay the Merc dealership $100 an hour estimate 4 hours to fix, took it to the audi/other euro dealership because they were $80.00 an hour and after 3 days the fault and about 9 new ones are still not fixed and the merc dealership will not help now, truck it to another merc dealer far away.
thejazzpianoma,
Sep 29, 3:14pm
LOL, had to help someone fix the same problem on a Toyota Highlander a while back. they had turned down Toyota's mechanisim at over $400 and ordered a "motor only" from them. So lets hope the Corolla has a different unit.
BTW, for their $50 for a "Motor only" they got a $4 model shop engine which didn't even have a gear on the end of the shaft (had to pull the old one off and glue it on) which we were then expected to put into a sealed housing which had to be cut open with a dremel and patched back with epoxy.
I will take the VW/Audi any day thanks.
budgel,
Oct 1, 4:16pm
Wow! there's a surprise!
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