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12-11-2003, 07:02 PM
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Not for my $80k - I'd expect to use my car all 12 months of the year.
I had lemons in the shop 60 days + a year. Sorry, but I buy expecting the damn thing to run, get me where I'm going, etc.
A frigging Honda can do it for 1/4 the money, so then should this A8.
A few glitches can be put up with, but a month out of service for a drivetrain issue?
Fine, give me an identical loaner, that would be fair enough, though still a disappointment.
Something less? Then start compensating me.
Don't compensate me? Then lets just unwind the deal while you work out the bugs and finish cooking that thing.
Then, when you have a merchantable product, sell me on it.
Somepeople buy houses that cost the same as the a8. Imagine: Mrs. Jones, I'm sorry, but you can't have use of your house for the month over Thanksgiving, or perhaps some other surprise month of our choosing, but we'll give you this nice motorhome during that period...
Saralee didn't contemplate only driving the car 10 or 11 months out of the year when she put down her money, she contemplated having full use of it, all year long.
If ya told me, 'it might not be driveable for a month at a time now and then', I don't think I'd have bought it, nor would anyone of sound mind.
If Audi contemplated that, but didn't tell saralee, they have defrauded her.
But we all know that such a lengthy and grossly egregious repair as this was not contemplated by either party, and part of Audi's business is assuming the risk of their product, via both the warranty and the laws of merchantibility.
They failed on the latter, under the guidelines of the lemon law, and must now make reparations.
Why anyone would find saralee's experience acceptable is beyond me.
A frigging Honda can do it for 1/4 the money, so then should this A8.
A few glitches can be put up with, but a month out of service for a drivetrain issue?
Fine, give me an identical loaner, that would be fair enough, though still a disappointment.
Something less? Then start compensating me.
Don't compensate me? Then lets just unwind the deal while you work out the bugs and finish cooking that thing.
Then, when you have a merchantable product, sell me on it.
Somepeople buy houses that cost the same as the a8. Imagine: Mrs. Jones, I'm sorry, but you can't have use of your house for the month over Thanksgiving, or perhaps some other surprise month of our choosing, but we'll give you this nice motorhome during that period...
Saralee didn't contemplate only driving the car 10 or 11 months out of the year when she put down her money, she contemplated having full use of it, all year long.
If ya told me, 'it might not be driveable for a month at a time now and then', I don't think I'd have bought it, nor would anyone of sound mind.
If Audi contemplated that, but didn't tell saralee, they have defrauded her.
But we all know that such a lengthy and grossly egregious repair as this was not contemplated by either party, and part of Audi's business is assuming the risk of their product, via both the warranty and the laws of merchantibility.
They failed on the latter, under the guidelines of the lemon law, and must now make reparations.
Why anyone would find saralee's experience acceptable is beyond me.