2013 Audi S7 Engine Problems

“With 68033 miles on my Audi S7 the turbos failed and required to be replaced. The first indication of the problem was when the engine shutdown in traffic and I had a hard time starting it while stopped in a busy city traffic lane. It took 3 attempts to get the engine started but it idled very roughly almost quit running again. I was able to limp the car home, but was not sure of the engine would quit again if I let it idle.”

“Bought my car with 77,000 miles on it and when I reached 81,000 miles my turbo charger failed. This seems to be common issue with this year vehicle, so common in fact, that there's belief there may be a design flaw in the car. Below is a description of the issue. While going coming back from the grocery store (driving normally on a saturday) I noticed that the check engine light appeared. The car continued to drive ok so I went ahead and drove home and parked it. …”

“I heard a pop sound when accelerating and the check engine light came on and I loss a lot of power. I called the Audi dealer and they told me to drive it in. I left it with then and they told me they couldn't replicate the issue after a couple of weeks. I went to pick it up and the problem still existed. I went back and grabbed a service tech and we drove it around the block together. He asked that I accelerate at which point white smoke started pouring out of the back. We drove it back. They diagnosed it later as being a blown turbo. …”

“I exited the highway, merged onto a 4 lane highway, and moved to the center lane to turn left. The engine shut off and when restarting would shut off again after a couple of seconds. This made it nearly impossible to turn left off the highway. There were multiple vehicles approaching at 50 MPH. After having the car towed to the dealer I was informed that the turbos failed at 69,000 miles. I checked online and found many people with the same 4.0 twin turbo engine had this failure. My opinion is this failure is premature, dangerous, and should be recalled.”

“Initially I was driving on the interstate (I-95) and could feel the car running rough or missing. After I exited the interstate and merged onto the highway (sr405) the car stalled at a traffic light. Wouldn't start at first and after several attempts it finally started but was running really rough. Luckily I was only a mile from the house and was able to get off the highway and limp home on some back roads. I had the car towed to Audi the next day and they diagnosed the issue to be a failure of the turbos. Repair took 21 days and they had to replace the turbos and the oil screens.”