$530 + labor for a new headlight ballast? Audi are you kidding me?!?!

[scoTT la rock]

so my drivers headlight went out, and while i was in getting the free coilpacks i had them diagnose the problem.

so audi says that the problem is not the bulb but the xenon ballast. and they want $530 for the part alone.

has anyone had this problem? any cheaper place to get the part? i remember a thread on here from a while back where someone said that the part can be obtained through chrysler??

any advice or input would be greatly appreciated.

trying to avoid being raped:

scott

[itsmatt33]

look in the classifieds there is a ton of ballast for sell under 200.....plus the labor takes 5 mins

[JeffM03]

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...ighlight=twist

[Rommulus]

I believe this is the correct part:

http://www.moparpartsamerica.com/par...layCatalogid=0

[josh160]

Just buy a new HID kit for $100

[scoTT la rock]

I believe this is the correct part:

http://www.moparpartsamerica.com/par...layCatalogid=0

thanks homie. just ordered it. we shall see what happens. =)

[NetLogic]

Just buy a new HID kit for $100

Who makes a D1s after market kit? DDM doesn't.

[fitch303]

Should have laughed in their face, I would have.

[jursch2211]

thanks homie. just ordered it. we shall see what happens. =)

I just got these on wednesday and put them in yesterday. These work 100% guarantee. Take off the old gaskets and put them on the new ballasts. Took a total of 10 minutes minutes to do. Save yourself some money!

[scoTT la rock]

I just got these on wednesday and put them in yesterday. These work 100% guarantee. Take off the old gaskets and put them on the new ballasts. Took a total of 10 minutes minutes to do. Save yourself some money!

question why did you buy two? were both burnt out?

[nein-reis]

If you don't do both they could be different colors, and if one goes out the other COULD follow.

[jursch2211]

^Pretty much this is the reason

question why did you buy two? were both burnt out?

I've been doing some preventative maintenance recently so i've been replacing a list of things and will be doing more soon. I just got ecodes for a friend of mine and I got two new bulbs with them so I decided to have a fresh set of headlights with new bulbs, ballasts and o-rings. $200 for ballasts is a good deal

[scoTT la rock]

just wanted to come back to this thread and say thank you for the help.

i got the part from moparparts.com for only 105 with shipping. came in 3 days. 10 minute install and it works perfect!!

the part was indeed the exact same one audi uses. the only difference is that the mopar one had a few different raised areas on the back, which threw me off for a second. but it was a direct fit and worked!!

thanks and props to audizine for saving me over 500 dollars!!

[Elliott]

That's what AZ is all about!

[AudiA4Turbo22]

What? Did u expect bargain pricing from Audi?

[Rejoice]

LOL yep another case of the dealership pricing. They quoted me $500 to replace the rear brake pads. LOL

[scoTT la rock]

What? Did u expect bargain pricing from Audi?

no i dont expect bargains from audi. my point is this:

if something breaks on my car, and it is a genuine AUDI part, well then okay- i guess i have to suck it up and buy an audi part from the dealer. my beef is that when something breaks that is a VALERO part, not audi, there is no reason that it should cost 530 instead of 95. that's just blatant rape.

similar story, a friend has a land rover LR3. took it in for some random problems and he was told he needed 4 new tires. was quoted 400 dollars EACH for the tires. these are NOT land rover tires. he went to a regular tire place and got them for 150 each instead. more blatant rape. not cool!!