4 rings what you got

[franco90]

I have an 2008 Audi A4

[Kovs]

I've owned a bunch... 200 Turbo Quattro Avant 10V, 20V, 90 20V Quattro, and UrS4. The 20V 5 cylinder turbo is one of the all time great motors.

[alB5]

Watch out for the "UFO" front brakes. they blow. Audi built a backwards facing caliper with rotors that have a "UFO" shaped cage, Their idea was larger rotors with small rims. they all warped and the rotors are very expensive to replace. Alot of people swapped out to different strut housings and standard brakes.


http://www.spannerhead.com/wp-conten...FO_Brake_2.jpg

thanks for the heads up, turns out the one i'm looking at is only a 10v though

[bimmer630]

i might pick up the exact same car, hopefully a 20v.

Watch out for the "UFO" front brakes. they blow. Audi built a backwards facing caliper with rotors that have a "UFO" shaped cage, Their idea was larger rotors with small rims. they all warped and the rotors are very expensive to replace. Alot of people swapped out to different strut housings and standard brakes.

http://www.spannerhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UFO_Brake_2.jpg

[bimmer630]

The S4 v8 is a ballbag to work on too. no room under there. I had to do drive belts on an (02-04??) S4 cabrio recently and the only way to get to the belts is to remove the front rad support.. or maybe slide it out but i didnt see any "service mode" setup like the Mini cooper has or my old B5 passat had.

[eurotrash]

1.8t isnt a hard engine to work on. its the 2.7 that isnt real fun. luckly my entire front end pulls out in "service mode" and aside from turbos pretty much everything can be handled.

[LuckyHenriksen]

I daily a beater B5 Avant. Actually love it for trashing around town hauling parts, and it even has a killer factory stereo setup. I'm just scared of fixing things when they break :(

[Jand3rson]

Aw, look at all the cute overpriced Volkswagens. :D

[GThomas]

My old car, miss her but what a pain in the ass.

[eurotrash]

My gf has an 06 a4 and it scares the shit out of me. all the fsi shit, just more to go wrong. the b5 has its down side but other then having to buy 2 of everything it hasnt been to expensive but then again i didnt pay for a single upgrade on this one.

[freeride53]

I LOL'd at that broken clutch

[DrJosh]

Austin is a great guy. I met him on the LCA drive over in Spokane. Where you there?

[Joe G]

in that case it is definitely not mine. Eitherway, they have tons of potential but are expensive as Fawk and a pain to work on when anything goes wrong.

[dreamchasin]

He bought it bone stock, so I doubt he got it from you.

[Joe G]

I did sell my car, it could very well be my old one. Does it have a white suede and black leather interior with touch screen navi? He may have meant Rs6 turbos, thats what mine were out of. K04s came out of the B5 RS4, but are still quite fast. My old car pulled hard on K04'd car haha. It was a monster indeed, 29 lb of boost spike and held 27lbs. When i was in limp mode at 13lbs a brand new carrera 4s couldn't pull an inch on me and it drove the guy nuts haha. Good times.