audi oil pump failure?
Discussion
a friend has an a6 1.8 petrol (not really a pher) about a 2000 model I think.
His oil light came on the other day, intermittent at first then all the time. He stopped!
Has now been quoted £600 plus to replace the oil pump. Sounds a lot to me, but also sounds odd to me to have complete oil pump failure, car is regularly serviced, oil changed etc.
Has anyone else had this happen? Just wondering if there is a more common fault causing this, maybe even the pressure sender switch.
Thanks
His oil light came on the other day, intermittent at first then all the time. He stopped!
Has now been quoted £600 plus to replace the oil pump. Sounds a lot to me, but also sounds odd to me to have complete oil pump failure, car is regularly serviced, oil changed etc.
Has anyone else had this happen? Just wondering if there is a more common fault causing this, maybe even the pressure sender switch.
Thanks
The parts are only about £100 so its the work involved that costs.
If he want to try a cheaper fix you could go D.I.Y, or even just clean out the strainer and retest. But your talking a good days work to do that, posibly only to find you need to do it all again to replace the pump.
But if it was my labour on my car, I'd try for the free fix first. If your paying somone to drop the sumfram and remove the sump, you really have to put a new pump and strainer in there.
If he's anoid about the cost, just point out it would be the end of a £3k engine (and thus the end of the car) if he haddnt turned it off quick.
If he want to try a cheaper fix you could go D.I.Y, or even just clean out the strainer and retest. But your talking a good days work to do that, posibly only to find you need to do it all again to replace the pump.
But if it was my labour on my car, I'd try for the free fix first. If your paying somone to drop the sumfram and remove the sump, you really have to put a new pump and strainer in there.
If he's anoid about the cost, just point out it would be the end of a £3k engine (and thus the end of the car) if he haddnt turned it off quick.
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