[Closed] Coolant level sensor broken - how much to repair?

Have a look on Eurocarparts. I can't believe it will be too expensive.

Go to a motor factors, ask for coolant level sensor, I'm guessing somewhere between 5 and 20 quid. Screw in.
Or pay independent garage, add something reasonable for getting off arse, say 20 quid, to the part price for the job.

How much do you reckon my local Audi dealership has quoted for it...

I'll go first...£200

£225, but you get a free cup of coffee while they gently bend you over.

I reckon about 200 quid as well.

They said "no problem, we can do that now, for free"?

Okay, maybe not

Rachel

Coffee and lube. Get you and your moneyed ways.

I'd guess the part at somewhere between 50 and 100. I'd go for an oem one, cheap sensors always seem to have a very limited lifespan IME.
Fitting is a bit open ended TBH. Totally depends on the engine. Yes, it'll be just be screw out, screw in, top up, but it could be anywhere from staring you in the face to buried under a manifold nestled in a rat's nest.

I'm guessing £300+*

*+VAT

Just Googled it - Audi list price is £371.98 for just the sensor!!!

Just twist the wires together. You have eyes

brilliant.

and people always say im talking shite when i say VW/audi prices are high.

Ok, at just outside the warranty I'd be looking for fitted for free at a minimum, and if you've used that dealer for servicing a bit of good will.

The feels when you give a jokingly high price, and it's possibly 50% cheaper than book.

If it's anything like my old Golf, which it probably isn't, you can scrape the rust off with a screwdriver to make it work again.

Just Googled it - Audi list price is £371.98 for just the sensor!!!

Can't be. They are £5 delivered on Ebay. You must be looking at a larger part of the cooling system. Even VAG can't take the piss as much as that!

Okay, so they claim they have to replace the expansion tank and the wiring loom to the 'computer' as it is all a single unit that needs replacing (ie, they claim they cannot just replace the sensor itself).

Audi list price is £371.98 for just the sensor

Does that include the lube and spooning afterwards ?

Enter your VIN and confirm what they're telling you...

http://www.realoem.me/

Does that include the lube and spooning afterwards

Our sensor is gone on the gold I think. When cold, the "Stop, top up coolant" comes on with a beep. But 5minutes later if you turn the engine over again it doesn't do it.

Yeah on mine, it just says 'Low coolant, switch off engine'.

When I switch it off and back on again it goes.

The question is .....How much of it is them covering their arse.

I would put money on cleaning up of the connectors and additional some protective lube would have it all working well......Google says many many people have done this on the 2.7tdi a6 at least

Audi won't do that as theres no guarantees it will last so hit the change everything involved button.

If in doubt, replace everything.

I've read the thread, we need the answer now ! How much did they quote ?

Then just Google your model of car and "coolant sensor", there will be info on how to fix it for a lot less.

Edit to add - the £5 sensor looks to be the temp sensor, not the level sensor.

If in doubt, replace everything.

Another fault flagged up when they plugged it in: [i]Tank filler flap fault. Require actuator and sticker to rectify.[/i]

(Apparently occasionally the filler cap isn't locking when the central locking is activated).

They wanted £236.69 for that little job.

I guess this is the price of running an exec mobile if you can't/won't diy.

Simple basic cars might not have all the toys but boy are they cheaper to fix.

if you can't/won't diy.

£1,540

😯

😯 indeed !!

And I bet it's something dead simple like a dirty connection.

The filler flap just needs some spray grease and a bit of a wiggle.

And I bet it's something dead simple like a dirty connection.

The filler flap just needs some spray grease and a bit of a wiggle.

As I have never had fuel stolen from any car I have ever owned in 30+ years of driving, I would be pretty unlucky to have three full tanks stolen in the next 6 months before the car is handed back to the lease company. 🙂

Ohh, and the tank has some 'anti-siphon' device in it too anyway...

That's nothing a work colleague has a S3 2 months out of warranty with about 32k on the clock. One injector failed open. Took both lambda sensors out but luckily the cat wasn't damaged. To replace one injector and 2 sensors with a discount to parts and labour £1600.00. Two weeks later static temp sensor fails £700.00 quid. It's getting chopped in this week against a new focus ST 3. He's too scared to keep it. 3yrs old. They have lost a really loyal customer who has had performance Gti's and S3's for the last 15yrs.

And I had, for a fleeting moment, considered buying the car from the lease company when it goes back.

Not now!

Lease co paying for the repair ?

Wait....it's a lease?

Do you have to hand the car back free of any fault codes?

Do you have to hand the car back free of any fault codes?

I always assumed that lease deals had a warranty in place fr the full duration of the lease period? Is that not the case?

I always assumed that lease deals had a warranty in place fr the full duration of the lease period? Is that not the case?

If it uses the traditional VAG cooland header tank with the integral level probes - then you may get away with cleaning the sensor probe tips , if it is the std VAG header tank then it is cheap to replace OEM - if the dealer is talking about wiring to the sensor - then have a look at that - some models
suffer from water or coolant ingress to the short loom that the sensor plugs into when the sensor leaks internally corroding the electrical contacts.
Well known VAG group fault.

jd - the lock may also stop people maliciosly adding stuff to the tank: urine, sugar and such.

jd - the lock may also stop people maliciosly adding stuff to the tank: urine, sugar and such.

Well my thoughts when i saw it was a lease was ....Doesn't it have to work when he hands it back.

Well my thoughts when i saw it was a lease was ....Doesn't it have to work when he hands it back.