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really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
- No data
- Average Mileage:
- 72,950 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 2 complaints
engine problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
I bought this car used about 6 months ago. Great car. Loved everything about it. I work from home, so we don’t drive very often. I usually only put about 4000 miles on my cars per year. When I bought my car from the Porsche dealer in town, it was already Stage-1 91 tuned and had a custom intake.
I started to hear a slight tick in the engine while driving it. With a Stage 1 tune, sometimes, that can be caused by bad gas or dirty oil. I put in new gas, added some octane boost, and got an oil change, but the tick didn’t go away… it got a little better, but didn’t go away. In fact, the engine light came on, throwing a P0333 knock sensor code.
So I took it to the Audi dealership in town to have them look into it. They came back with the bad news that one of my cams were knocking and it was likely a catastrophic problem that would require a new $30k engine replacement.
I took the car to a local German vehicle specialist for a second opinion, giving them no information other than that the engine light had turned on. They found metal shavings in the oil and came to the same conclusion: the only option would be an engine replacement. They quoted $22k + 20 hrs of labor.
Turns out, this is a quietly known issue in the B9 variant, because Audi fixed it with better rocker arms in the 2019 B9.5 variant.
- P Y., Oro Valley, AZ, US