Audi q7

Beowulf

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Location
Scotland
We took delivery of one in March. I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of driving it, but that's a personal thing as big lumbering diesel burners aren't really my cup of tea. It is however extremely comfortable, surprisingly good on fuel and being an Audi it's screwed together extremely well.

The flat bottomed steering wheel drives me round the bend (pardon the pun), my wife tells me the inbuilt Sat Nav is useless and according to the kids the rear heated seats only seem to have two temperatures - either off, or melting the skin off their arse cheeks, no matter which of the three settings they are on. My wife thinks it's harder to park than our last few 7-seaters, despite having cameras all round. It's the size of a battle tank though, so that's not surprising.

Mine is apparently rated to tow 3.5t, but only because it has the optional air suspension. If it had Ye Olde Cart Springs it would only be rated to 2.8t or something like that.
 
What year?...there is a known inlet manifold issue on pre-2008 (i think) 3 ltr tdi engine. This model/year has 3 manifolds and from what i remember you're looking at £600-£800 per manifold and once one goes the others follow soon after.

You can get repair kits for them - but waste of time.
 
Yeah I had it on both an a6 56 plate and q7 57 plate - both of which had same 3 ltr tdi engine.

For what it’s worth I loved both of these cars
 

rusty

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Had a 58 plate VW Touareg, basically same mechanicals as a Q7. Great tow car nice engine but had both manifolds changed at £500 each and still had engine de-rate it's self for no apparent reason so got shut. Watch for uneven tyre wear on fronts, need tracking checking often. Really enjoyed driving the car.
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
Mine was ordered soon after its launch in 2006 while on holiday when a deal I couldn’t refuse was offered against my then three year old Range Rover.
Anyhow, it’s fuel consumption was OK at around 26mpg early on, but after an ECU remap its performance and fuel economy improved substantially. It’s fuel economy continued to improve over about 40,000 miles and I ended up regularly getting 33mpg. I believe that later models improved on that again, without remapping and gained an eight speed gearbox [mine had six].

It went very well and was almost totally reliable over my ownership of 65,000 miles. The only real fault it had was a driver’s seat that repeatedly blew its fuse, starting from about 45,000 miles.
The biggest issue I had with it was its appetite for tyres. It wore all four equally and evenly but went through expensive premium tyres every 10,000 to 12,000 miles. Between four and five sets for every set I get through on my current Honda and Volvo. The Volvo is its equal in every way.
Cheap Korean tyres would last about 18,000 miles and cost half as much to buy, but after they had covered 9000 or so, they made so much noise that they made my ears bleed, or almost. They were also very skittish in the damp.

The biggest let-down were main dealers. I used two. The supplying dealer in Shrewsbury who evidently overpaid for my Range Rover and who sent me a bill for an extra £3000 about three months after I had taken delivery, it long having been bought and paid for. Told them where to stuff that, with tin-tacks!

Secondly Sinclair Swansea who tried every trick in the book to raise service invoices by trying to sell totally unnecessary brake pads and wiper blades and ‘air-con services’ etc. I also asked them to have a look at the seat fuse issue at one service. They reported that their ‘Master Technician’ had found two burnt out motors in the seat. Unfortunately not available separately, but they would do me a ‘good deal’ on a complete new seat at £1000 plus fitting plus VAT. No thanks!
Took it to a local independent mechanic who found a frayed wire shorting on one motor, wound it with insulating tape and re-routed it slightly, and the seat worked perfectly for the next two years. I could only conclude that they were crooks and that someone less savvy would have thanked them very much for being conned and shafted at every opportunity.
 

Finn farmer

Member
Jaysus, I can tell you now you are not alone in that regard when it comes to Audi dealer experiences. It puts me off ever having an Audi.
Dealers are crap here also. Cars aren't that great either nowadays. :rolleyes: 134k€ for Q7 with 4 wheel steering and rear end electric motor, f that.
 

Timbo

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Location
Gods County
Is this general to the 3.0 tdi fitted to cars also?

Yes. It's the spindles for the variable length change over which even on worn allow the stepper motor to travel too far or jam , which sets limp mode. You can bodge it abit by adding a physical end stop but they don't last long.

Also a factory tow bitch equipped car will have the extra plates in the trans cooler and the 2nd cooling fan installed - they must be installed if you tow more than a Halfords trailer !!
 

Cowabunga

Member
Location
Ceredigion,Wales
Yes. It's the spindles for the variable length change over which even on worn allow the stepper motor to travel too far or jam , which sets limp mode. You can bodge it abit by adding a physical end stop but they don't last long.

Also a factory tow bitch equipped car will have the extra plates in the trans cooler and the 2nd cooling fan installed - they must be installed if you tow more than a Halfords trailer !!

The issue with inlet manifold flap valves is common to many vehicles, including BMW such as the X5 and Range Rover with the BMW engine.
 

Timbo

Member
Location
Gods County
The issue with inlet manifold flap valves is common to many vehicles, including BMW such as the X5 and Range Rover with the BMW engine.

Not in the same manner tho..
BMW had a propensity to swallow their flaps due to the screws coming out.

VW have them sticking in some of their fsi engines due to carbon build up.

The 1.9 fiat motor often in GM cars the intake almost entirely fills with soot and the flaps spindles break.
 
Not in the same manner tho..
BMW had a propensity to swallow their flaps due to the screws coming out.

VW have them sticking in some of their fsi engines due to carbon build up.

The 1.9 fiat motor often in GM cars the intake almost entirely fills with soot and the flaps spindles break.

Wasn't it in the 4 cylinder BMW engines that the parts came off and got ingested by the turbocharger or similar? Whilst the 6 cylinder ones just seemed to get fouled up.
 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
I think some of the trouble with the servicing costs of these cars is the service interval. If the brakes or tyres are worn and won’t make the next 10k miles or whatever then the dealership think they want changing. For your average muggles this is probably the best policy. I ask how many miles they predict they’ll do and then have another look.
 

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