Recall: Fuel Rail

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03-27-2019, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Kishan Ramsammy

The fuel rails are located under the turbocharger of the vehicle and I would not recommend going and messing with it to try and check it yourself Audi has so many connectors in their engine bays. Fuel rails delivers the correct amount of fuel to each cylinder. I work for Audi the recall should be available now we are doing them already

I don't have a Turbocharger on my Q, I have a Supercharger. You work for a US or EU Audi?

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03-27-2019, 07:55 PM

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I don't have a Turbocharger on my Q, I have a Supercharger. You work for a US or EU Audi?

Sigh. And it's under the supercharger on your Q7. All of what the fellow says still applies.

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03-28-2019, 01:37 PM

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Got recall done today. Now noticing strong fuel smell coming from car. Never had this before. Dealer told me some degree of fuel smell is expected after fuel rails change. Did anyone of you guys have this issue?

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03-28-2019, 02:26 PM

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I got mine back yesterday and I haven't noticed any fuel smell. The dealer did have the car for 6 days (including weekends) so who knows, maybe the time helped eliminate the smell.

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03-28-2019, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mhoran89

I would harp on this... I was smelling candy from the day of delivery and overlooked it. 1500 miles later they did an oil change and found the coolant pump gasket leaking. There is a separate thread here on it and it has been pretty common...

Thanks, my oil change is due in May, I'm going to ask them to do another check.

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03-28-2019, 04:47 PM

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does this TSB cause high fuel consumption? I used to be able to drive 990km on one tank,

Now I can only drive 560km on one tank, thats 348 miles on one tank of gas

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03-28-2019, 09:29 PM

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Looking at these posts, I feel better off NOT doing this recall...

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03-29-2019, 06:14 AM

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I have had no coolant issues, no consumption issues, or any gas smell.
Performing the recall is not the problem, it's who does it...

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03-29-2019, 07:46 AM

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I'm getting mine done next week so I will report in. The dealer said I could wait for the car. Has anyone else waited? Saw a post that said they had it for 6 days above.