Surely people like watchdog should be getting involved now to raise awareness.
The way I see it Audi have now admitted fault to a degree so it now just about the push for a recall
A quick look around the forums and you will see that it is full of newbies being handed a repair quote from their garages, and THEN having to google the solution and stumbling upon this VOSA thread. Simply put, VAG have not admitted fault, and their services/garages will treat any new incident as a normal issue, bill and send home... until the newbie tells them they know about the VOSA letter, then all of a sudden it's "ohhh, THAT fault, I was not awaaaaareee"...
They're splitting the cows... one group is for milking, and the internet group for slaughter, once everyone here has received their cheque, you think they'll give a flying monkey about other's "safety"? Statistically speaking, 80% won't touch this thread again... until they've got another failure...
Let's assume VOSA bend over to VAG's mumbo jumbo and agree that one dead family is hardly worth them forking out a few million and a hit to their reputation... they shake hands, and we get one or two fingers from that, depending on how kinky you are feeling...
...who's going to set VOSA straight? What's the next step? How can we jump the Watchdog queue to make this public? Are VOSA even accountable to anyone?? Do the AA, RAC even care to know? Is it even their duty to inform people when it's not "officially" a fault?...
I and several people have already emailed watchdog with no response... aside from flyering every single 2.0 VAG car you see, I don't know how we can get this publicized without forking out an arm and a leg's worth, which nobody here will do...