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Chart based on 31 repair trips. The repair cost chart excludes repairs made under warranty, do-it-yourself repairs, and repair trips that include maintenance.
Just a missing center wheel audi cap needed to be replaced as it was missing at vehicle delivery.
53720 mi
Rust underneath the hood, Audi denied warranty coverage claiming that it was due to stone chipping
24000 mi
High pitch noise when cruising freeway especially up to 85mph. Dealer replace driver's side mirror and car is still in dealership.
64000 mi
US $60
bracket holding sun visor broke. Bracket replaced.
30670 mi
Valet button stuck, replaced button.
4000 mi
Was RVU for wind diffuser for sunroof
15280 mi
Sunroof pop up wind deflector was replaced with a new design that decreases wind turbulence. It improves the ability to drive the car with the sunroof fully retracted up to 80+kmh versus the old design made it very uncomfortable after 40kmh
26700 mi
US $130
The paint on the front bumper near the fog lamps began to peel on both sides of the car.
Wind noise on driver's side. Complained at 5k service, dealer could not reproduce. During the 9k service (different dealer was able to confirm). Door strike adjusted. Whistle gone.
5000 mi
Front right tire inner fender rub. Inner fender cover reattached. I have not noticed the noise since that time.
125 mi
Tire vibration issue
Door seal deformed
Part in airbag in steering wheel loose
While returning the sun visor from the left to the center, the retaining clip broke. Dealer had to order the clip. Real pain because the visor flapped until fixed. New sun visor clip installed.
14000 mi
Rattle in front passenger door, for which there is a technical service bulletin from Audi. Fixed plastic fasteners inside door that loosened over time, as well as additional sound insulation materials.
15000 mi
Continuing rattles traced to glove box. Noise was terrible -- essentially made driving impossible. I isolated the source (dealer could not), after which dealer fixed the problem. Finally.
10000 mi
US $43
retaining clip for sun visor broke. replaced by dealer in 2 minutes
44000 mi
Dealer performed an unsolicited Tail Light gasket update #94F6 under warranty to prevent possible leakage of moisture into the Tail Light housings.
Driver side door handle started to crack, replaced under factory warranty. Had to wait for trip piece to come from Germany.
16000 mi
There was a squeak coming from the center console that I could easily replicate and illustrated to the dealer but they did not fix it. Brought the car back after failed previous attempt to repair creak in center console. After talking to service manager and describing the issue, they compared to another S4 on the lot and verified it was not normal and were able to repair.
20800 mi
Passenger visor clip broke while clipping the visor back in. They replaced the clip under warranty.
25000 mi
A trim piece on the driver seat rail broke as I was adjusting the seat back.
30000 mi
Rattle coming from passenger side. Could be heard going over any road surface other than perfectly smooth and when playing music with a lot of bass. Dealer performed TSB for rattles when playing music with a lot of bass. Rattle from passenger side from previous trip. Dealer damaged door panel from previous trip. They patched it as a repair. Creak coming from center console. The dealership tried to adjust it but were not successful.
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