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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-MlpyNiqY

Pretty crazy, over 40 hours labour - ouch!

The price of the short block assembly alone must have been thousands.

Mine had exactly the same strip and rebuild @ 16,000 miles covered under warranty by Chingford Audi due to a cylinder bore defect. Puts it into perspective after watching a video like that just how much work is involved in stripping one.

So Much work for a engine change on these cars !! I hope mine never goes bang

Is there a chance the owner of that car is on here?

I recall reading a very similar sounding story not long ago - car through flood water, done a rod, lots of tooing and froing deciding with the insurance company if it was a viable repair?

Looks like they had two people working on it. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was a £15k+ job.

Only if all Tech's were that quick !! That's got to be the best part of £16.5k

Fcuk going there, I've never seen a job rushed so much!

coldo wrote:Is there a chance the owner of that car is on here?

I recall reading a very similar sounding story not long ago - car through flood water, done a rod, lots of tooing and froing deciding with the insurance company if it was a viable repair?

Yes didn't it have a fault with the new bottom end and they had to get another in?
Imagine doing the job to find out the new replacement is <beep> and you have to do the whole thing again, can feel that sore throat coming on

jaysrs4 wrote:Fcuk going there, I've never seen a job rushed so much!

R1RS4 wrote:

coldo wrote:Is there a chance the owner of that car is on here?

I recall reading a very similar sounding story not long ago - car through flood water, done a rod, lots of tooing and froing deciding with the insurance company if it was a viable repair?

Yes didn't it have a fault with the new bottom end and they had to get another in?
Imagine doing the job to find out the new replacement is <beep> and you have to do the whole thing again, can feel that sore throat coming on

Might be DuncanF on here as I seem to remember his car was driven through flood water in the Yorkshire Dales, and the car in the clip is Darlington/Durham registered

Dealer is Watford Audi though?

Plate surround looks like Hatfield Audi.

jaysrs4 wrote:Fcuk going there, I've never seen a job rushed so much!

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Good vid though, might be useful to see various aspects of the engine out of the car when trying to work out access etc.