Well on a diesel Tuareg V10 try changing the A/C compressor sometime.
Driven off the back of the engine by a tooth cush drive and a short shaft, the customer had a DIY "bash" !
He got it out with a bit of busting deformity of the engine appendages, but couldn't put it back in to align the cush drive without it being absolutely square to the internal drive. He had already ripped up two expensive rubber cush drives before throwing his torn up hands in the air .
The thing floated about amongst the Pro shops in the Metro area, like turd in a punch bowl, all getting the sign of Dracula! It end up in my shop on a hook.
With Dennis UFix we are out on this' un!!
Took one look!
What a pile of cobbled together crap !
Now I am a bit wary of VW Audi stuff at times, especially with
Audi All Road's junk because of the biggy! -customer neglect, poor maintenance, plus the universal problem of
NO MONEY to fix it.
I often think why do Yanks buy this crap in the first place, when they know its going to be a wallet flush to fix it in most circumstances.??
Book time was
13 to 18 hours to fix, (Audi Porsche dealer quoted 24 hours cool
) whereas the V6 gasser petrol version was a 3,5 hours call !
Not our usual fare I pushed out an inquiry through the trade forms & the Audi Pros near me that mighty have struggled on this job as acts of masochisms !
I got back, its an engine out job really, but beware if you have the thing on the hoist, being very imbalanced! A written warning!
Without the power pack bolted in, it will do a back flip like an Olympic diver off the hoist !! So chain the effing thing down! Oh me Gawd !
So to teach a student in the Audi Super duper expensive Audi program in college a lesson I said -
"Nick you can have a bash at this un!"
Start with radiator/cooling system because I have a bit of a hunch to do this without pulling /.dropping the power pack.
Once out the way and with the driver's engine foot off, you could just about stab the compressor into the drive arr'.
After fixing all the busted appendages and deformity from frantic DIY removal it worked.
T'was an 18 hour job on a Tuareg!! Whoopty do!
A/C system worked as expected, but as usual the car was marred by poor electrical circuits everywhere and gash wiring harnesses, typical of turn of the century German stuff!
No emulation of Ford's ISO 900 wiring standards, nor Sumitomo excellence found on Lexus to be found; here which destines the crap to an
eternity of customer penury at a dealership trying to make it all the electrical functions "do their thing" . Good shop money spinner for sure!
Then it gets traded for more crap which puts shop profits up!
Wonderful really is this velocity of money, its all spinning about with tyre skidding, mid boggling bend hugging speed synonymous of the Audi/Porsche brands we see on the Tele. Most of it is worthless on ice & snow but that is another story.
But there is always Landrover . Now there I smell money !
Dennis