It was sarcasm. Very dry humor, but a joke
Another Hemi bites the dust.....
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Who's Burla?
Have you ever driven a Fiat. They are the most god awful things on the road. Fiat’s involvement in anything is a guarantee to make it worse/ cheaper.
Driven? I've OWNED half a dozen modern Fiats and would take one over a late model Audi where you have to remove the engine if you're replacing anything more than the spark plugs.
Fix It Again Tony..!
What are these repairs that are needing to be done that are requiring engine removal? What failures are Audi having?
It’s one thing to list a process in the repair manual should it ever be needed and another for that repair to actually need to be completed.
Out of all the manufacturers I’ve worked for VAG has by far the lowest amount of engines needing repair.
Come over to Europe and ask a mechanic who has worked on all the different makes and models like I have and most will put Fiat/ Alfa at the bottom for build quality followed by Citroen/ Peugeot and Renault. They make disposable vehicles with a 8-9 year life span.
Audi’s current weakness has been software due to (they say) Covid and software engineers working from home and not communicating with each other.
Right off the bat, the timing chains on the early 2000's S4 that Audi put on the back of the engine facing the firewall.
Current gen Audi 3.0T rear timing chains.
Engine removal not required to do those. Pull the gearbox out.
Honestly, is that any easier?
Is that supposed to be a big improvement?
I have a soft spot for Mopars, but with the cost cutting and engines being made in MX just to save union labor kind of does it for me. I have a 2018 Jeep Cherokee and it's been flawless, though. It was at its time the most American car you could buy but sadly they're canceling it supposedly along with the Belvedere plant.
Nope but a few posts later it was clear as he replied.
Reading comprehension and reading the entire thread before replying is also a lost art.
I'm in trouble then!
I remember young guys buying those muscle cars and getting on them right away. No break in. It was so much fun they couldn't be bothered with putting an easy 1k miles on them. Many of them smoked going down the road.
Yes if you drop the engine the gearbox comes too so then you have to drop it off to do the timing chain work, you can take a gearbox out on most models in a couple of hours, you get 16 on average for a engine remove and refit.
Come on, everyone with any common sense knows it’s a big difference.
None of the current engines seem to have any inherent weaknesses with the chains, unless you do what one owner did to his £80,000 SQ8 with the 4.0 TDI and go 23,500 miles on an oil chain. Yeah that caused an elongated timing chain that warranty did not cover.
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