AUDI RECYCLING PROCESS - What Happens to Audi Cars at the End of their Life? 

Idiots they are

Expensive in aftermarket, but cheap in production

@@Stefuu_ These things cost a fortune new. I was actually SHOCKED to see them crushed like that. It almost hurts...

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@@Sunset3725 It is called capitalism.

Prototypes

@@robloxfan4271 Dude stop talking things that you don’t know, These vehicles are not prototypes..

BMW produces 250k cars a year and scraps 125k. Cheap german rental cars like BMW and Audi usually last for 5 years, only the best survivors get sold to the public. Basically no one buys a new car in germany.

Maybe some are floded or totaled

​@St3fan or they're just audis lol😁

It depends on labour in the specific country. If it is economically not phsible, then the car is scrapped. One scrap car in a country is not in another. I know that France sends lots of cars to Poland to be repaired and used rather than scrapping them. Also lots of parts go to African countries.

Mostly These Cars have broken engines or stuff that is too expensive to repair

they probably removed the seats because they can recover them, but yeah they could have easily saved some spare parts like the headlights, it does involve more logistics so I'm not sure it's worth it

At least they aren't like Hyundai/Kia too. I've seen two videos on here showing them crush the cars without even draining the fluids and not even removing the battery

So does it mean that they are written off in accidents or something? Cars don't rot unless they are are either damaged or have been subject to alot of use or been lengthy exposed to the elements through large amounts of usage.

@@RU-vidMuch certified pre-owned?

I believe that the newer vehicles are pre-production test vehicles and parts cannot be used from them as they have not been approved for normal road traffic use, or they are damaged. It is a liability issue where it is easier for VAG (as with most car manufacturers) to destroy test vehicles and their components so none end up on an unsuspecting persons vehicle then they have a lawsuit for unsafe parts.

Prototype vehicle

Or that thing has (even tho it's a TFSI which would make it unlikely) be a long distance cruiser that already has 200.000km and the transmission broke or the engine, or it could have been flooded.

Could have been technical issues like water damage

Test vehicles.

To sell more new cars

they are run down rental cars, they are worth next to nothing.

La société de consommation dans toute sa splendeur !👎👎👎👎🥶 que va t’il en être du recyclage des voitures électriques ?

It's Audi. So it looks good on the outside, but it's a total ruin not worth fixing on the inside: engine, transmission, suspension, electronics.

these are dead rental cars, they are worth next to nothing.

some are demo cars used by journalists whose abused them

Audi does that. Thats were the seats in the boxes go to

They already do. According to European Directive 2000/53, they have targets of %95 reuse+recover by weight.

Are these the ones that Audi bought back off there customers cos of the emission scandal ???

Hi, so I don't know if you're from the U.S. maybe you already know but I'll just tell you anyway: Audis just like BMWs and Mercedes have a different customer base here than they have in the U.S. A lot of older people 50+ buy them, which means they usally have a dry place to stand in, are not driven hard on the autobahn (only exeption being company cars which usally are midsize stationwagons here like the A4, 3 series or c-class they get driven by all kinds of people). But engines and transmissions can fail on these like on any other car or when you trade then in at an Audi, Mercedes or BMW dealership they usally get crapped if they're older than 6 years because they can't get their specific warranty for the cars (like the Audi Gebrauchtwagen Plus[=used car plus] I don't know the name of BMWs and Mercedes used car warrantys but I think Mercedes are called Junge Sterne [=young stars] max. 4 years old and 50.000km/~31.000miles) and if they have more than 80.000km/~50.000miles, they are just not worth keeping in stock for the dealerships. The market for older used premium cars is usally seached out by younger people between 18-28 years but they don't wanna spend more than around 20.000€/~21.300$. Other possabilities why these cars are getting scrapped might be water damage (we had a big flood catastrophy(?) in some regions of Germany in 2021 or some people here also explained that these cars could have been test cars.

Audi, actiially all vag group, French, English and Italian cars are almost all of them junk, endless moneypits. Even brand New ones. Just untill know i didn't see any good Chinese brand either, and i forgot the US GM and Stellantis group.

Yes because they reuse the materials

Je me suis fait la même réflexion, quand je vois toutes les pièces jeter qui aurait pu resservir je trouve ça honteux.

Body shops are interested in second-hand parts for repairs though.

Of course there is a market

Yes ofcourse there's a market for any part that's costly - very much!

Because it is a state of the art facility, which can automaticially segregate materials after crushed and shredded.

Probably virtue signalling. To show that they're "sustainable." As do most companies nowadays.

the parts are worth nothing.

imagine waiting 6 months to finally sell that door panel or headlight. it's a waste of space to store those. Also it's against Audi's interest to sell used parts when they can sell new ones.

Looks to me like Audi won't have any cars to sell new parts for. They are all being scrapped. Something isn't adding up here

Они суть не показали. Там гигантская дробилка, измельчает всю машину в кусочки. Магнитом отделают металл. Пластик, стекло, медь и алюмишки, уже отдельно отделают, в другой технике. Здесь не показан весь процесс.

Кто ж новые тогда купит ) капитализм ... ) Главное затирать всем про экологию )

Продали :) Этим занимаются все страны европы и японцы. Разбор на запчасти. Остальное в утиль. Не думайте что немцы такие глупые :)))

They are different cars :)

@@megaemintm my point exactly

Juckt Audi recht wenig

No its not. Except for the prototypes