[BiturboS4] Re:S4 buying

[Philip Pace]

The badges have a general correlation but the best way to tell is to look at
the ECU. M or higher (on manuals) means new (you're good on that). Slushboxes
I'm not sure on - check APR's website or call them if you can't find the info.
www.goapr.com. Even the build date is fuzzy because it only tells the month and
they switched mid month.

My theory on the badges is that they made new ones and threw them in with the
old ones, so there is a period of a couple months where you could have old
badge/new engine or new badge/old engine.
-Phil

--- Ti Kan <ti at amb.org> wrote:
> Derek Cheuk writes:
> > What build date differentiates a 01 and an 01.5?  Are all new badge S4s
> > 01.5?
>
> I've hear conflicting stories about this one.  Mine is a 2001 with new badge,
> has a build date of 10/00, which puts it right in the transition time.
> I don't know whether I have the new turbos and oil lines or not, and I
> haven't found a way to determine that visually without pulling anything
> apart...  VAG-COM tells me I have a 'M' version ECU, but not sure if
> that's indicative of anything.
>
> If your build date is in 2001 then it's definitely a '01.5.
>
> -Ti
> 2003 A4 1.8T multitronic
> 2001 S4 biturbo 6-sp
> 1984 5000S turbo
> 1980 4000 2.0 5-sp
> --
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