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Sadly I don't think there would be enough work in the aspect of people happy to spend relatively large sums of money in relationship to the value of the car as a whole and so a bit of a non starter.........Given the specific issues with the FSI (and the fact that much of the garage trade does not like dealing with them / does not understand them) it might be time for an enterprising FSI owner on here with the mechanical skills to set up as a specialist so that owners have a trusted repair resource?
It’s been done for OSS and various other re-manufactured parts ......
But if an individual with the knowledge was happy to help other owners for the love of the cars this could work........but that would have to be something someone would have to think quite carefully about.............I could foresee all sorts of pitfalls.
As we know early FSI cars not just A2's but Golfs etc etc have come in for lots of stick over reliability and while some is to do with poor thinking at the design stage it's more to do with bad ownership, the majority of car owners see a car as transport and have no understanding of why a car needs maintainence, only carrying out repairs when they stop or need an MOT, there must be a fair share of FSI's which have been subject to this sort of ownership.
As has been said now is the time to find a good FSI and treasure it........yes it will cost money......yes it will go wrong......yes you'll ask yourself why??....but as many of the FSI owners here with good cars can justify they are great cars.....a bit like Great White sharks given bad press over known (and repairable) faults, but the public only see the bad side of things when their badly maintained car lets them down.......whose to blame, not the car but the owner........ just like sharks if you swim in their environment things can go wrong..........