2018 Audi Allroad

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These pics show what I found when I went there this morning......

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In this pic I pulled the headliner down far enough to see up inside, the bright blue tube is the drain tube. View is looking forward from the back edge of the headliner

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This is where the blue tube goes down thru the C pillar....you can just see the blue tube in the first pic, then another view looking down along the edge of the C pillar where it goes down thru the body shell

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This was somewhat interesting, this flat orange cable is the high voltage (48 volt) cable that goes to the starter for the stop/start feature.

I hesitate to call it a feature because I don't like it and try to remember to shut it off whenever I start the car. It doesn't use it much if the weather is really hot and the A/C is trying to catch up but on a cool day like today it pretty much works at every stop light.....it can be a PITA.

Look at all the electrical bits under the back seat! I have no idea what any of these are for......

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Oh, and the reason for the delay? They claim they broke a seat back release cable and had to order it, and it won't be in till next Wed.

Why does that impact the sunroof drain repair? No idea......

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Got our 2018 back from the Audi dealer today, and I'm still not convinced that the problem is sorted......I got the old hoses and saw no damage, cracks, hardened rubber bits (in fact the old tubes were far more flexible than the new ones) and so on. It was explained to me that the outlet end is where the problem happens. There is a sort of rubber valve that's supposed to let the water out that gets clogged up, then the water backs up the tube and goes where ever it wants too. In our case with such a slope to our drive it heads to the back corner of the car.

The new and improved hoses have a different valve at the end that supposedly will not get clogged up.

Seems to me the easy button would be to just go to the outlet end and use a pick or something to open it up and let the water out rather than take the whole interior of the car apart to change these tubes. They did give me the old hoses, and I will be writing a strongly worded letter to Audi about their poor design and the cost of the repairs ($1800 - they cut me a break. $1327.50 in labor, 141 in tax, the rest in parts etc.)

I still need to repair the corroded wires in the back and see if I can get the rest of the various things back there to work again and stop putting up 15 warning lights and chimes every time she starts the car.

I know she's glad to get it back and all, but she has her eye on another 2018 for sale at the local Genesis dealer.....it's red! Has 39K vs the 19K on this one.....I don't see the point but I know she'll never "trust" this car from now on.

Here's a pic of the old and new hoses showing the problem end....