Worst Night of My Life

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

unless you got some sort of warranty or guarantee with the repair there isnt much you can do. the cold winters here in WI are hell on cars. my car does all sorts of random weird crap in winter, just nothing major and it goes away when it warms up
can't believe we are having a **** thunderstorm today, if it were snowing like it is raining right now we would get a foot

Well the wierd thing is yesterday it was like 40 out. I would expect this when its like -10 or something but not 40. And yeah the thunderstorms are pretty crazy right now.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

Um ok? I worked at a body shop for two years and we had people try and claim it was our fault when they would crack there molded bumpers by bottoming them out. I figured something that they sold me and installed made for lasting 60,000+ miles should last a little longer then 27,000

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

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[HitManSE 10+ year member]

IF you're willing to take a gamble, have your mechanic replace the timing belt anyway and see what happens. Ive seen many interference still work after such an incident, it is however still a gamble because the chance of losing the money to change the belt and still have the engine not work does indeed exist.

Upto you, but last I recall, German motors arnt cheap. Its a gamble id take vs doing an entire R&R of the motor right off the bat.

edit: As for the belt only lasting 27K, you're right. There is also a good change whoever installed it goofed, thay should last at least 60k in Audi's, ive even seen them go over 80K and beyond. Unless something else inside failed, etc. that caused it to snap.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

Um ok? I worked at a body shop for two years and we had people try and claim it was our fault when they would crack there molded bumpers by bottoming them out. I figured something that they sold me and installed made for lasting 60,000+ miles should last a little longer then 27,000

sorry just had to post that pic somewhere

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

sorry just had to post that pic somewhere

lol its all good, i figured such.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

IF you're willing to take a gamble, have your mechanic replace the timing belt anyway and see what happens. Ive seen many interference still work after such an incident, it is however still a gamble because the chance of losing the money to change the belt and still have the engine not work does indeed exist.
Upto you, but last I recall, German motors arnt cheap. Its a gamble id take vs doing an entire R&R of the motor right off the bat.

edit: As for the belt only lasting 27K, you're right. There is also a good change whoever installed it goofed, thay should last at least 60k in Audi's, ive even seen them go over 80K and beyond. Unless something else inside failed, etc. that caused it to snap.

I know what ya mean, i will proboboly end up taking that gamble but im still waiting to hear back on what else was damaged when it snapped some of the pulleys looked messed up but i couldnt tell cause it was dark at the time

 

[Mr Wiggl3s 10+ year member]

daddy's boy got car problems, what a shock

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Sucks to let your 1st true love go, lol!

I say for 500 bucks, do it.

Nice looking Audi. Is clean, clean!

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

So I know most of you guys will be laughing in my face from this but, this is a place I can let some feelings out I guess so here goes the story. I was driving to my dad's last night because I like to stay there on the weekends when I'm home from college. Anyhow I was driving my daily driver. 96 Audi A6 Quattro. I was going maybe 72mph on the highway in the left lane. I had it on cruise and all of a sudden my check engine light comes on and i notice my car was slowing down. I pushed on the gas and had no response. I then noticed my motor was turned off, my electrical was still on but no power steering or brakes. I pulled over to the center lane and within minutes I had two trooper cars behind me. I tried starting it and the starter sounded fine but would not catch. I had a flatbed out there within a few more minutes and I had them bring it to my local mechanic. Upon arrival I opened the hood to see the beautiful plastic casing around my motor was torn to shreds. The timing belt which I had replaced roughly 20,000 miles ago had snapped and torn all the shit up. The 2.8l v6 thats in there is an interferance motor so pretty much im screwed. there looking at it now but im guessing it will cost more to fix then the whole car cost me. The shop was guessing the valves are all messed and some other damage occured when the belt snapped and damaged some pulleys with it. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif:crying://content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

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[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

I didn't even have a system. I had a cd player, 3.5s in the dash and 4x10s in the deck.
20% Mirror Tint + 100 spoke wires + Gbody cutlass = pulled over for pointless shit often.

hahah wtf?! flip is an OG, i knew it.

They told me to get it off the highway and I had ten minutes to do it, there dicks in winnebago county, wi.

i had a buddy who was driving a rented car in detroit. he fell asleep at the wheel, hit a center divider, and ****ed the car up. the car was left with 3 wheels. a detroit officer told him he needs to get it off the road. he told him "dude, its missing a wheel, it went rolling down the ****ing road" and the officer told him "i dont care, you need to get it off the road" wtf, kinda shit is that?

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

hahah wtf?! flip is an OG, i knew it.



i had a buddy who was driving a rented car in detroit. he fell asleep at the wheel, hit a center divider, and ****ed the car up. the car was left with 3 wheels. a detroit officer told him he needs to get it off the road. he told him "dude, its missing a wheel, it went rolling down the ****ing road" and the officer told him "i dont care, you need to get it off the road" wtf, kinda shit is that?

the cop said it was for my safty to get it off the road but I wasnt even in the car when he told me I had a friend come and get me and I was talking to the cop on the phone

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

had that shit happend to me they pulled EVERYTHING out of the car, i MEAN EVERYTHING. When they didnt find anything they simply shruged there shoulder and said have a good day. I got stuck putting ll of the shit back

try having the cocksuckers do that to your house. DESTROYED my house, didnt find a **** thing.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

try having the cocksuckers do that to your house. DESTROYED my house, didnt find a **** thing.

I think in return we should get to do it to them and there shit if they fail to find anything. Bummer how the US works though.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

just got a call from the mechanic he tore into the motor a little more and said the reason behind what happened is my cam seized and that broke the timing belt and I will need a new motor more than likely.