Hey Scotty and the community, I hope all is well with you! My best friend's dad has a 2016 Audi Q7 3.0 TDI with automatic transmission and 168'000 kilometres (105'000 miles). It's been now about 25'000 miles that the dealership told him to replace the timing chain because it might break very soon and he wouldn't even drive the car anymore. My friend and I drove the car to my independent mechanic and he said it won't break yet, but it'll need replacement soon, which might be a 10 grand repair, but he'll have to do it at an Audi dealer because they have such incredibly complex systems and you need the tools. My friend's dad doesn't think though that it is any issue and he just keeps driving. Now you can hear it really, really loud when he starts the car and even when the engine is warm, when accelerating at low speeds, you can hear the timing chain. He wants to drive the car until about September and then get a new one (after putting another few thousands of kilometres). What do you think, will it break until then? Are these types of issues frequent with these cars? It's been troublefree otherwise and we live in Switzerland
Well, unless you're a riverboat gambler, I'd get rid of it now. Why does he want to wait to get rid of it. He's basically driving a pile of dynamite waiting to go off. And if it does go off then it's worth nothing
Thank you for your answer! I think he wants to wait until they installed these electric chargers in their garage and then he wants to buy an electric car. It doesn't make any sense what the guy's doing, my friend tried everything he could, but his dad won't listen. But it's his money, the noise from the timing chain worsened significantly, even his neighbors and relatives told him about it, but I guess only he knows what he's thinking