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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by rajathagasthya on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:49PM (#13988120)
1k per 6 months of maintenance costs? If you don't mind answering, what kind of maintenance was it that you had to do every 6 months?
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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by paulddraper on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:24PM (#13988539)
More likely it was maintenance every 18 months that cost 3k.

Everything is more expensive on an Audi. It's thousands to replace the fan belt, because you basically have to take the whole car apart.

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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by rajathagasthya on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @02:15PM (#13989043)
The $3k is for additional repairs on top of regular maintenance, correct?
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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by paulddraper on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @02:20PM (#13989095)
Not the OP, but that's certainly including regular maintenance.

To use a previous example, replacing the fan belt is regular maintenance. The problem is that Audis are very tightly engineered. Good in some response, but not for easy maintenance/repair.

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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by woodpanel on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @06:01PM (#13991022)
Was thinking the same. Have driven cars in the same price range and while maintenance is indeed expensive, I've had a hard time even coming near 1k a year.
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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by gatsby99 on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:36PM (#14006690)
I have an audi a4 2012 and the maintance cost is no where like that. It is 400 $ every 24 th month.
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