2009 Audi A4: engine failure

Filed Jan 24, 2019 · Engine · 60,000 miles · CA · crash

Oil consumption I had this car since 2012 and found out recently about oil consumption class action lawsuit through the internet, when my car started consuming copious amounts of oil. The owner manual says a quart per ~1,200 miles, but I'm getting oil light at about 400 miles after service at the dealership. I spoke with multiple dealerships including the dealership I'm currently doing every 10k maintenance with and none have actually helped me out since I'm out of warranty of 80k. I spoke with audi corporate and they say they will review when they get to my case which is pretty much never. They keep telling me to take my car in to do phase 2 oil consumption which is going to be a several grand repair. I did phase 1 out of pocket roughly 1,700 and they fixed pcv breather valve, seal and updated software after I replaced the pcv breather valve recently, but they said the valve is old, so they replaced with newer one, but still pretty much doing the same thing and that's consuming oil. Audi corporate say they will "review" my case which pretty much means I pay out of pocket and then they'll see which I doubt. This car is literally a headache never buying an audi again. Audi is crooked and they do not want to repair even though they know about these problems. I know they're trying to bait me into repairing the car further which will ultimate lead to a 10k engine replacement and that's not going to happen not on my dime.

Filed Sep 6, 2018 · Engine · 85,000 miles · CA

At 70k car was consuming oil every 1k having to top off a liter of oil. Dealer adv this was normal because of turbo engine. Ignored the issue until got worst topping off every 750mi's then to every 200-300mi. Dealer checked & adv needed turbo assy replacement before they would check on the oil consumption issue. Cost to repair $3,925+ tax. Couldn't afford that so lived w/issue for a while. Doing research on internet I found this was a very common problem w/this car/year and there was a class action lawsuit & audi had to pay to repair for this oil consumption issue for free but only if you put the claim in by a certain date.I didn't know of this so I complained to the audi dealer but it was too late for my car to be honored. The dealer then would perform a oil consumption test for $300 with a few new seals and bolts.if after the test it still consumed oil rapidly they advised maybe audi corp would honor the repairs or at least help cover a partial amount since I was a dedicated customer getting all my services done at audi. After testing it failed & was diagnosed that I needed new pistons/turbo etc.to fix this. Basically sounded like a new engine.went to audi corp. & submitted the complaint & all showed all receipts of services done to the car to see if they would help honor the repair but end results they didn't do much & was advised by dealer it would cost me $7000 to fix. I ended up declining service from the audi dealership & went to a local audi mechanic shop to at least perform the turbo repair & that cost me near $5k. This is a lemon of a car & audi knows it! There should of been a recall for this fix but instead let their customers suffer spending loads of money on repairs.

Filed Mar 23, 2018 · Engine · 94,000 miles · FL

In august 2015 with 66k miles my audi experienced a turbo failure which, because of the oil consumption class action, was replaced by my local audi dealer free of charge. They then performed the oil consumption procedures and while they cited redoing piston rings and some other seals, the oil light issue is still present. An important note here in regards to braman audi who handled this service...when they did the complete block removal in order to handle the piston repairs, they did not replace the rear mail seal that is apparently known to fail around 75k miles, so there I was dropping another $1500 for a rms replacement of a $50 part because the audi certified dealer didn't think to replace what's known to fail before reassembling the block. Here we are now about 2.5 years later and with 94k miles, and my timing chain has failed inside the block and I'm being told my entire engine might be toast. How can you possibly claim an oil consumption issue that causes turbo and piston failure, and not cover the timing chain that runs the whole system? This is ludicrous, has cost me significant time and money while the car itself isn't worth but maybe $6k. Now I'm looking at a chain replacement at $2k or a whole new engine at $10k plus. Might as well put a sticker on the new audis that says the car will have negative value after 65k miles. My car now won't run at all and has been at the mechanic for months waiting for someone to step up and take responsibility, manufacturer or dealer, either way they are both aware of major flaws in their manufacturing and do nothing about it. Sounds like consumer fraud to me.

Filed Mar 12, 2018 · Engine · 68,000 miles · FL

Driving vehicle home and it started shaking got the car home and when I shut it off and turned it back on it rattled and sounded like metal I turned it off and then I turned it on again and this time it didn't turn on at all I had it checked by mechanic and he told me that those audi and that year had an oil consumption problem and so he checked the engine with a diagonate machine and it said chances are there can b major engine problem it said the machine said the chain jump and could have cause piston and rod places sad car is in great shape and looks good and has low mileage now it needs a engine replacement

Filed Feb 2, 2018 · Acceleration, Engine · 92,000 miles · TN

Driving home from work, all of a sudden my vehicle was revving while it was idle and at low speed, making it very difficult and dangerous to steer the car and keep it under control. Upon inspection, it was found that the timing chain tensioner had failed and had caused serious engine damage, causing the pistons to fire prematurely. Previously the tensioner was replaced in 2014 by audi when the car had ~50k miles and was reported as a "weak tensioner". My car currently has 92k miles. I believe that no replacement tensioner should only last 40k miles and cause catastrophic engine failure and put consumers at risk of not being able to control their cars.

Filed Aug 27, 2017 · Engine · 120,000 miles · MA

While driving the car came to a complete stop and had to be towed to a garage - it did not start again. After investigation the tensioner failed causing piston and valve damage which equals an engine replacement! No insurance coverage and when I picked up the car - there was another one coming in for the same issue!

Filed Jun 28, 2016 · Engine · 79,000 miles · NJ

We bought two 2009 audi a4's for our children. Last month one went to the the dealer because the engine failed and needed to be rebuilt because of oil consumption issue, while there the dealer informed us that the water pump was failing and needed to be replace. I questioned the dealer and called an independent audi mechanic, both said the same thing, we were lucky it lasted this long audi has known from the beginning that this water pump is flawed and should have been recalled. Now fast-forward to yesterday, my daughter took hers in for an oil change and the mechanic, a different independent audi mechanic, said car was fine except water pump was failing!!!! He said its a known problem and audi is fully aware of it, its a $1200 repair not including the suggested timing belt change. Two cars, same exact model and engine, this cannot be a coincidence. Please help!!!

Filed Jul 9, 2015 · Engine · 96,000 miles · TX

Vehicle began to run very rough and started to shake. Parked and stopped engine. On attempting to restart it briefly fired but then died and stalled. Subsequent attempts to start the vehicle resulted in it turning over with no apparent firing. Vehicle was towed to the audi dealer and we were informed it was due to timing chain slip. It appears from information online that the timing chain tensioner in this 2009 b8 2.0t engine is defective. The head and pistons were all damaged and the engine was declared unrepairable by the audi dealer. Dealer charged $1300 for inspecting the pistons and wants $13,000 for a new engine. This vehicle had replacement piston rings out of warranty but at no charge to us due to the known excessive oil consumption issue (for which there was a class action lawsuit). Audi increased the engine warranty from 4 to 8 years as part of settlement of this class action, but only in respect of failures related to the excessive oil consumption issue. Audi maintains that this issue is unrelated but the dealer service manager told me that anecdotally she's seen several such failures after piston ring replacement (I have this interaction recorded on video). Searching online shows that there are several websites selling replacement timing chain tensioners to replace the defective part that audi uses on this engine. Audi refuses to acknowledge any fault on this issue. Red line speedworx website which sells upgrade kits to replace the defective part says that typically this failure occurs at 80k miles plus. Since the standard warranty is 50k miles this means that audi views itself as not liable for these failures. We are filing a lawsuit against audi over this issue.

Filed Mar 12, 2010 · Steering · 28,000 miles · TX

2009 audi a4 avant with 28000 miles on it when the steering became hard to steer at low speed. I drove it to the audi dealer 315 miles from my home. Told that the steering shaft had "seized" and the part was on back order. Might take two weeks or more to repair. I was given a free rental and told that they would be in touch when repaired.