You have to take into consideration that the vast majority of the public will not research every manufacturer's history, recalls, customer service, or recent faults when buying a vehicle. That doesn't mean the manufacturer can sell off faulty vehicles and get away with it because a customer didn't carry out a full investigation on a company's intergrity.
Without getting into a long rant, the bottom line here is they supplied vehicles with faulty parts and are letting people drive with a dangerous fault. This is not some sunroof leak that affects a batch of cars, it is a fault that cuts the engine out regardless of speed when the injector fails and you lose the ability to control your car in any safe manner. The stories are endless and across many forums, and whole VAG range is affected.
More and more people are finding out, not about the fault itself, but that we are taking a stand on this. We are not accepting the pre-written script that get recited to you when you call Audi/Skoda/Seat/VW... these need to be recalled before one of us gets into a serious accident and god forbid get killed or kill someone else.
VAG don't care how much I spend repairing my car, and it seems they don't care about my safety either. I consequently now don't care about VAG and how much damage is done to their reputation and how it will affect their sales if they will not take responsibility and fix this error. The ball is in their court, VOSA have officially witten to Audi form what I can confirm (possibly VAG), and it will be another 4 weeks from now for the official response. If VOSA are spineless and do nothing about this, it doesn't mean the fault it not still there and it doesn't mean it's over.
In the meantime anyone affected needs to report this to VOSA, we have had enourmous response across many forums, and we need to press on to help VOSA at this stage, and if this fails, press on with the next step with BBC Watchdog and papers etc...
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