Parikh1234

whats the big deal if audi is fixing them under warranty? Found out one of my shocks failed and my dealer is replacing it at no cost. Whats the big deal?

star607

I think they were just trying to avoid a class action lawsuit.

Bob W.

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sparkhill

Then Audi uses slogans like "Truth in Engineering" and "Vorsprung durch Technik" ("Progress through Technology"). More like <i>Bull**** through Marketing</I>.

Audi knows that the failure rate of at least one DRC component is very high. Look at all the cars with DRC issues. Even if only 20% have issues, half of those have been in for multiple repairs, which would make the overall failure rate at over 30%. And this does not account for the idiot owners who just go away when the dealer says this is "normal." Or those intimidated by the TSB stating oil sweating is "normal."

To make matters worse, your local Audi dealer may or may not even be able to fix DRC correctly the first, second, or third time.

Somewhere there is a disconnect. I can see trying out DRC on the first RS6. Maybe (just maybe) again on the RS4 becasue it was probably already close to engineered. But to use it again on the new RS6 just shows Audi does not give a **** about the customer buying a halo car from them.

From the Audi RS4 launch promotion, "If they become available, they come about every 5-7 years per body style. The Audi RS 4 is absolute Audi, the highest-performance Audi in terms of size and performance. This is the best that the A4/S4/RS 4 line gets."

I don't want to drop anywhere from $70K to over $100K on a car with tired old suspension technology that has a tremendously high failure rate. Don't take this is all sour grapes. I loved my RS6 and RS4. I might even buy a new RS6 if it shows up in the US in sedan form. I just hate DRC.

bruised rs4

The big deal is your car going back to the dealer every two months from here on out.

CanuckRS4

Albert Einstein:

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

RennSport4

AoA must have made the calculation and figured cheaper to replace our DRCs until we have to bear the cost ourselves than actually fixing the problem or taking the class action law suit...

It's a shortsighted decision - by the time they've replaced all these failing DRCs and hurt the brand with some of their best customers, I suspect it would have been cheaper for them to just install stasis systems on all the US cars and call it a day...

McGyver

worrying about a key part on your car, waiting, scheduling appointments, driving with less confidence, etc. is worth a lot to me.

Nicht ein A4

is loss of use. My car has spent nearly a month of the six months I have owned it in the shop. Additionally, during the remainder of those five months, I enjoyed only a few weeks of normal use with a fully functional, non leaking, quiet and stable suspension. The suspension is repeatedly failing. The car is clunking, knocking and/or bobbing around for a good portion of the time I am driving it while I wait for an appointment for repair or wait for parts to come in.

I am paying to drive a 2008 RS4 and have spent ~18% of my time driving a variety of low optioned B6 A4s. That is a big deal and nothing to be trivialized.

Nicht ein A4

is why did Audi put this system in yet another Renn Sport car after the abysmal failure it was in the RS6? I understand it is in the new RS6, too.

They could have used the Magnetorheological shock system that just about everyone else from Chevrolet to Ferrari is using in performance cars. Better control. Better ride. More reliable. Duh.

I know Audi has this obsession with purely mechanical devices performing complex functions (ie quattro), but the DRC just doesnt work.