Jimmyvee

I think roll house or townhouse but it was on Vincent Terrace so maybe local term a terrace house, whatever. My point made by VinTest is that this is just poor design and it dangerous and should not be happening at this age and on newer cars they decide it needed to be redesigned. Interesting the point of his collapse is where my car is also sounding off from solid steel. A "V" shape of thick rust is noticeable. I may order the part from the USA shipped to my USA address, shipping parts in Canada can be shockingly higher sometimes than the USA. I'll check with Vintest, he tends not to mark up parts that much. Although I have bought new tires in Canada recently that cost about $80 less each at home versus buying on Cape Cod at the cottage. It seems successive anti-free trade governments starting with Trump then Biden have shifted the cost benefit in parts from USA to Canada on tires and two other recent repairs wheel baring ABS sensors and front suspension control arm. My last set of tire I bought in the USA and saved $300 from buying in Canada but now was $320 lower at home that Cape Cod. All our Guns come from America The land of the free to shoot your neighbour, I still remember the national Geographic picture showing a child peeing over the nation property line to America.

As for my Golf TDI 2000 mk4 in 2019 I drove it from Toronto to Tuktoyaktuk North West Territories, the most northern place in Canada one can drive and just 6 months later to Patagonia Argentina the most southern point one can drive. I thought that would be a cool accomplishment. The return we somewhat direct but I went along the gulf coast to Florida and Fort Myers along the east coast to Cape Cod and then back to Toronto. I suffered a few failures but no events like above. Bad design accept it and move on.

I found the parts on rockauto MEVOTECH CMS101216 for $136.60 USD for the pair or LEMFÖRDER 3675801 for $129.60 USD if that a good price versus his cost. The dealer here offers them just $395 Cad each wow what a deal, stealerships got to wonder how they stay in business.

Air bags by Takata going back as long at 2001 so that is 23 years, Really 13 years far too long I do not think so. VW did a recall on rust on fenders, runners and the rear door occurring with in 15 years. Problem was trying to get a dealer to actually do the recall. Oddly I post 136k km and it somehow get restated as 26,919.61 it should be 86k m hmm what is with that. The whole comment of he abused his car and that is why there is a problem What a crock!. I drove a MK4 TDI for 17 years, rallied it 8 years. Selling just a few month ago with 684k km on it that car was abused, went airborne several times in races but never had a failure described above. Funny thing while VINTEST was showing me this event another customer watched and after immediately walked under his car to see if he had the same situation and nope does not exist on an RS6. Given that the design is completely different on other Audi and VW cars tells me they knew they had a problem and decided to fix it. Cliff every auto company has failures in design get over it your relentless defence is questionable. As for different driving situations, every winter except last year this Audi A3 was stored inside over the winter. This winter was its first winter because I sold my VW TDI. As for snow this winter we had just 2 storms of note and we did not drive in either of them. Of any country can force a auto company to do a recall its America, lots of lawyers willing to make the case. Too bad so many manufacturers need to be beaten in court before they act. Simon wife was lucky driving on a side road with this failure, I'm sure if she was on the M series highway things could have been very different. By the way I lived in London near Angel Station, in a roll house with a canal in front from 1996-1998. So I'm know your roads just fine.

There is a under body paint in North America called Por15 its an acid based paint, so while applying it will eat through your gloves and destroy your paint brush but it stops rust completely chemically rather than covering it. Its not cheap about $107 Cad a quart. Even if others here may not see this problem now as a preventative idea one may want to paint it this stuff.

I was just in with my mechanic for a small repair and he showed me your situation starting to develop on my car. His take (VINTEST Audi VW) is that there should be a "RECALL" on this part, as he has seen on lots of cars with this issue and it should not be on any car less than 20 years old if ever. Its a MAJOR SAFETY ISSUE, if this collapses while driving lives will be lost. He thinks if just plan bad engineering design. Where you see v shaped collapse there is a dip which collects salty materials and excess or premature corrosion starts. Mine are o.k. for now but the weakening has started, he hit it with a hammer a few times and I could hear the difference in metal sound. So its on my near term list to go after, still it should not be the case. Dave V Audi A3 2011 136km Toronto Canada