Hi all, I am looking to buy a Audi A5 2.0 tfsi soon. However I am aware of the oil consumption issues with these engines. My question is, what percentage are actually effected? Will I have a good chance of getting one that hasn’t got the oil issues? Or should I just walk away from it?

 

the car has full service history, but has been recently done by a garage for the past few years and not Audi themselves. If it needs a rebuilt engine will Audi not pay out due to the service history?

i am just looking peoples experiences with these engines to get an idea and if you had a rebuild can you please tell me what you had to provide them with? 

if they had the rebuild done will it be covered by Audi? 

Hi,  I'm new to this forum but hopefully can help with your question as I bought my first Audi this year in a similar situation.

I bought an A5 2.0 TFSI Quattro 5 door after wanting one for ages, luckily I had heard of the engine oil issue from a mate at work who had an 11 plate model which did suffer from the issue, he was quite lucky and did get a new replacement engine through Audi fitted completely free whilst out of warranty, but his car had been a lease through our company and had bee looked after by the local dealer since new.  My understanding is that Audi will sort this problem if you go directly through them and if the car has been serviced regularly on time and has full service updates (so has been serviced by them), but that's only based on what some dealers have told me.

Before I bought my car, I checked directly with Audi and was told that the model I was buying was not affected as the problem had been solved by 2012.  If you are worried, you can check directly with Audi for the service history, they can tell you everything that has been logged by an Audi dealer, so if the engine repair or replacement has already been done, then they can tell you, but if it has not been handled by a dealer then you might not get that level of information.

It's a tough decision to make, but I would say, be very careful, my car has not been without it's problems, I haven't had the best Audi experience (and I did a load of research), my biggest mistake was buying from what i thought was a trustworthy dealer, lets just say it is a very large company that has hundreds of dealerships throughout the UK, but they sold me a car that needed a new turbo charger, a new windscreen, needed the gearbox oil change carrying out and some other minor issues, it took me 6 months to get them to sort out the issues, since then I now have another issue with the temperature sensor that a specialist can't diagnose, but under the bonnet there were some surprises including a broken superglued air pipe covered in insulation tape.  Not something I would say is normal, but troubling as it is now costing me a lot of money to sort out and I am considering getting rid of the car, which is a shame because I love driving it.

I hope this helps, check the car well and consider getting a professional to help.

All the best.