$800.00 repair bill under warranty.
 

Front brakes and a new battery at 21.5k miles today cost me 8 large. OUCH! I mistakenly assummed a 2006 S4 would be good for a while. Guess not.

Brakes I can understand if you don't have Audicare, but why did you pay for a new battery ??
 

I thought 4 year 50k mile new car warranty means just that,, covers everything except tires and routine maintenance...

Re: $800.00 repair bill under warranty.
 

Yep, I paid $575 for front pads and rotors recently.

LOL, that's just stealership pricing. Rotors are $68 a piece, pads $50 for the pair...
 

and a battery about $80. Installation shouldnt take anyone half way competent more than an hour for it all. Just never go to the dealership out of warranty and you're fine.

Nope. IIRC, brakes are covered only in first 12k. Battery might be similar.

Batteries can go at anytime and so can brakes depending on how you drive...
 

I had to get a new battery about a year ago I think. Engine heat, environmental heat, demands from electrical system. Not too surprising.

Also more recently had the front pads and rotors replaced. It was much cheaper than I would have expected but I don't recall what it was exactly.

My brakes/rotors didn't go until about 35,000 though and that included several "spirited" group drives and one track day.

Gotta pay to play I guess even though we don't like to.

At least it wasn't a clutch.

Eric.

My battery went out at 18000 miles and the dealer replaced it for free.

Re: $800.00 repair bill under warranty.
 

I thought the maintenance plan was for the 2006? Are you over 50k?

Ditto. Only non-warranty items seem to fail on this car!
 

Brake wear warning came on at 18K miles, rotors and pads replaced for $700 at Beverly Hills Audi (ouch!). Chalk that up to LA traffic and driving with a bit of enthusiasm but next time the brakes need changing I am going elsewhere.

At 22K, car wouldn't start without jumping. I wasn't sure if it was the battery or something else so I took it to the dealer. They said the battery had packed up and was replaced for the low low price of $450!!! Mega ouch, total rip off!

To make matters worse, they recently replaced a blown balast (the well known headlight flicker). When they went to put the bumper back on, they must have used a bunch of unskilled workers to do it because I could have done a better job with a blindfold on!

Battery is 12k or at least that's what the dealer told me.