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I need advice about an audi A3

behy · 2009-09-09 21:39:32

Hi. in march my girlfriend bought a 01 audi a3 for a dealer in meath. came with 3 month warrenty. nice car 100k on the clock. 1 week later the fault light came on figured it was the exhaust after not been on the road but brought it back he saz he checked it out but was fine. 2 weeks later light on again and i noticed it…

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09-09-2009 10:39pm

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behy

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Hi. in march my girlfriend bought a 01 audi a3 for a dealer in meath. came with 3 month warrenty. nice car 100k on the clock. 1 week later the fault light came on figured it was the exhaust after not been on the road but brought it back he saz he checked it out but was fine. 2 weeks later light on again and i noticed it was burning alot of oil. brought it back. this time he saz he checked it and some oil filter gauge or something (cant remember) needed changing. that done it ran fine but is still burning oil very fast like 5 litres a month minimum. its now september and oil is now leaking from the exhaust. she brought it to a local garage and he saz it was probably driven while overheating previous to her buying it. and not much can be done now. any suggestions or does anyone know where we stand legally as its now out of warrenty. please help............thanks

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#2 09-09-2009 11:12pm
Alanstrainor

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Moved to a new thread.

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#3 10-09-2009 5:59pm
clancyoo7

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There seems to be alot of dodgy audi's floating around. Have a look at this thread it might be of some assistance.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055677727.

I would also look at this site

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/consumer-affairs/consumer-protection/consumer-rights/consumer_protection_organisations

Happy hunting

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#4 10-09-2009 6:46pm
colm_mcm

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Have you any receipts, job cards, etc to prove that the initaial complaint about the oil consumption was made?

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#5 11-09-2009 12:31am
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Not of merchantable quality but its a court battle if you want to do anything about it.

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