Problems with 2003 Audi A4 EQUIPMENT

In replacing a flat tire after jacking the car up, the original car jack broke down and the car fell back down. luckily i haven't been injured, but was really a close call. *tr

The car jack broke down while replacing a flat tire, and the car fell on the ground after being suspended in air. fortunately while all the bolts have been removed, the wheel was stuck to the hub or otherwise i would have been seriously injured. i think the jack has a very flawed design. where the two parallel frames can be easily bent outward because they don't have enough support and then the support can slide out of its designated channel i have pictures of the failed jack. i am really concerned of what would have happened to my hands if not the miracle of the stuck wheel was there to prevent injury of my hands.. i have contacted the manufacturer to investigate this faulty design but they responded that they recorded the information for the future and there haven't been enough incidents yet to justify design review. *tr

Car loses power as it travels . has been to dealer for analysis and fuel pump replacement recommended. checked and found recall campaign 07v375000 is active. dealer refuses saying our car is not eligible even though symptoms are identical and make, model and year are same. they claim vin is not in recall base. who determines the accuracy of the vin numbers eligible? we have spent several hundreds of dollars to try and fix the problem over the past year and after several diagnosis we are told it is the fuel pump. we just recently found out about the recall. *tr

My 2003 audi a4 3.0 v6 driver side automatic window began to fail for the first time about two years ago in 2008. one day it just stopped working completely: still could roll down, but once down, it couldn't roll up any more. i had to use my hands to hold it from both sides to pull it up. it caused so many problems, sometimes real dangers, during the operation, until i paid a few hundred dollars to fix it a few weeks later. especially it's so difficult to go through toll booths or some narrow lanes when i can't open the door easily while not able to roll down the window, or in cases i had the windows down for whatever reason, it became dangerously difficult to get it back up when needed due to rain or snow conditions. i can hardly describe all the difficult situations that made me feel helpless. but two years later (2010), the same window failed again with exactly the same issue, not able to roll up. i delayed repair until now. what's worse now is at the same time, another window -- the rear passenger side window began to fail too! that's a window i barely use during the last several years of owing the car. one day while driving, there was this big loud sound like an explosion coming from that window, and i had to stop dangerously on the highway to inspect what happened until confirming it's the window failure. it's beyond any reason to explain why it would fail with no usage. this rear window presented more security issues to me too, because even if i push it all the way up with my hands, it always slowly slide down to leave a big opening about 5 to 10 inches wide. since i park the car on the street almost daily, it's a real issue to worry about burglars or break-ins. for this serious concern, i had to send it to the dealer for repair, who quoted me $460 to fix it including parts and labor. considering this has happened to me total three times, including one that's happened to a window i rarely use, this seems to me strongly an obvious manufacturer's defect. *tr

I own a 03 audia4 1.8t cabriolet. for the pass two years i have to repair the transmission twice- the car could not move, the gears weren't switching. audi usa are aware of this issue and still there is not a recall for that. second and bigger issue is the rear window which is separating from the convertible top. it is dangerous as the window can fly away while i drive the car with a higher speed on the highway and hit the cars behind me. also very common problem for this model cars. *tr

I have a 2003 audi a4 1.8t, which i bought as a certified pre-owned vehicle. i've had a slew of problems with this low-quality vehicle from the get-go, but that's a whole other story. upon taking my car to the dealership (audi chandler in chandler, az) for a separate problem, they told me that they would conduct a free inspection on my timing belt since they were required to do so. and guess what? surprise, surprise, my car was supposedly one of those with the known faulty timing belt. keep in mind this car is under the "certified" pre-owned warranty, but for some reason, this was chalked to wear and tear. my car only had 62k miles on it, and the oem recommends inspection at 80k miles and replacement at 108k miles. to avoid a possible future accident (i have small children), i had to cough up $1000 to replace the belt, tensioners, water pump, etc. i submitted a reimbursement form for my expenses to the firm handling the class action lawsuit against audi/volkswagen about faulty timing belts. the settlement was supposed to have been made on 11/4/08, but it's now in the middle of january 2009, and nothing. i agree with someone else who posted online before...why do these oem's have to wait until someone gets badly hurt or dies until they admit responsibility for their faulty, defective pieces of junk that are way overpriced?? plus, if my car was truly a certified pre-owned vehicle, wouldn't audi have disclosed that the timing belt would be faulty to me? or, how about replacing the belt prior to selling it again??? nothing was disclosed to me, and the class action lawsuit was opened in 2002. i am still seeking reimbursement, but knowing audi's stance on their defective parts, they'll just chalk it up to wear and tear and wish me a good day. what's worse, audi sold a million cars in 2008, which set another sales record for them. how can we get the word out to not buy audi and buy a quality car?????!! *tr

Audi a4 2003, the clutch failed at 30,000 miles, but audi refused to fix the problem until it was completely undrivable. i had to pay out of pocket because it was categorized as wear and tear, thus not covered by audi's least. the electrical system and the fuel pump also failed and needed to be replaced. the jack broke while changing a flat tire and i was told that this had happened to other audi owners, but still had to pay the damage to the plastic siding out of pocket. *jb

Fuel pump failed, ignition coils have all been replaced twice. *tr