Evening guys, I wanted to Reach out to all the knowledge and the forum. They have a 2013 at seven with 42,000 miles on it. Three weeks ago about 80 days after buying it, driving about 85 miles an hour in the fast lane with my son, my car just stalled. Needless to say I was a little worried, manage to coast it over into the breakdown lane and put it in the park. Car was getting full battery power Just wasn’t turning over. Kept pushing the start stop button and nothing. Had the car towed hooked it up and it showed a bad starter fault, nothing else was listed. Check engine light came on however but that was it. Had the car towed to the dealer where I bought it, thinking it was gonna be a starter. They did as well as they pull the codes and only the starter was showing a code. They ordered the starter, put it in, and then all hell broke loose on the codes. They drop the oil pan metal shavings all in the oil pan. Motor was seized. Needless to say this was a little distressful. The great news for me was, it 10 days before the 90 day warranty ended from the dealer. They have been great in responsiveness and have been good with communication. No complaints whatsoever. The one question I have for you guys is, they are putting in a new motor with new turbos. This motor has a little less mileage than mine does around 35,000. I’m having them do the PCV valve recall at the same time and having the new oil strainers for the turbos put in Because we’re right there and we might as well do it at that time. Is there anything else you think I should be looking to do or try to look out for in the motor swap? I tried to negotiate doing the RS7 turbos but they decided they didn’t wanna do that. They were only going to change it back to the way it was. Thanks for reading this and I look forward to any comments you might have.
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Originally Posted by Alister
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