Porsche_lover:
I can be mistaken, but believe to have heard this before and even remember once reading a couple of years ago in a Belgian magazine Autogids / Le Moniteur Automobile that the test driver had the same problem with an Audi or Volkswagen after trying a quick start for the acceleration times and the test driver reported to never have seen that before (obviously claiming in the article it was not his fault ...) with any of the cars he tested before.
Good luck in getting these fixed, hopefully for a decent price. What have you bought as replacement 
(looking forward to good things)
The mechanic told me that quick starts and hard acceleration are not the cause of the failure. These pieces are not moving parts or mechanical parts of the car. These bolts or whatever are made of steel and don't age.
I bought a black on black BMW 320d coupé to replace it. 
It's well equipped car with the M package.
At first, I was considering a Golf GTI or scirocco. After test driving the two, I was a bit disappointed with the lack of power. What's more, the residual value of these cars is terrible. After a year, a GTI will loose half of its value. Not a good thing if I want to own a porsche one day.
I guess the fact that I had the opportunity to drive a bunch of 997s (S, turbo, GT3) & 987s on a few occasions is working against me as I always feel disappointed when I'm behind the wheel of a GTI or even a TTs.
So I decided that,for now, it was better not to buy some pseudo sports car because I just don't have the budget to a buy a good one. My conclusion is simple: you need at least 50K to buy a decent sports car. If you don't have that kind of budget for car, you're better off with a 320d as the resale value will be a lot better and the power difference is not that big anyway.
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