CarComplaints.com Notes: The 3rd generation A8 got off to a slow start. Really slow, like "limp home" slow thanks to leaking antifreeze frying the engine's control modules. Thankfully the problem was recalled in September 2016.
I was taking my son to football practice, noticed my pick up wasn't usual get up and go. Slowed to make a left turn and hit the gas and the car bumped, and noticed smoke from the engine, lights on flashing to a crawl to the stop sign where the journey ended. Tried to restart nothing pushed the start button so much it broke. Traffic had started to back up on me horns blowing they see this big pretty car stopped at a very busy intersection. I was able to release the can out of park by the latch under the drivers side floor, so I could roll off the road in neutral 2hrs later a tow truck arrives to take me home where a mobile tech came to look at at ant told me the turbos have blown and seized the engine, 14k to fix at the dealer oil starved no start. To be continued...
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I was taking my son to football practice, noticed my pick up wasn't usual get up and go. Slowed to make a left turn and hit the gas and the car bumped, and noticed smoke from the engine, lights on flashing to a crawl to the stop sign where the journey ended. Tried to restart nothing pushed the start button so much it broke. Traffic had started to back up on me horns blowing they see this big pretty car stopped at a very busy intersection. I was able to release the can out of park by the latch under the drivers side floor, so I could roll off the road in neutral 2hrs later a tow truck arrives to take me home where a mobile tech came to look at at ant told me the turbos have blown and seized the engine, 14k to fix at the dealer oil starved no start. To be continued...
- A J., Atlanta, GA, US