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[Greg Amy]

I, myself, am at a crossroads. My '00 S4 just passed 10 years old and 136k miles. Original turbos (still working great), and I've done all the standard repairs: timing belt, rear wheel bearings, ABS module, suspension links, ad nausea. Just finished the brakes all around this weekend, too.

In short, it's still a great car.

But after buying my wife a brand-new Jetta TDI, and remembering what it's like to drive a new car, I'm getting the fever. Plus, I'm expecting to soon be getting back into the realm of Round Two of all these repairs (at the very least I'll need a t-belt within the next year-ish.) Add to that the fact that the car isn't worth squat on the retail market, even as clean and well-maintained as I've kept it.

On the other hand, it's a helluva car to drive, especially with the APR ECU in it. And where else am I going to get a 300-hp AWD four-door power/leather everything sedan for that kinda money? Couple to that the two big boxes that have been sitting in my garage for the last two years containing a brandy-new APR turbo-back exhaust system, and I have to wonder do I move forward or punt? Drop in another several K in turbos and labor/effort and keep it for a while or sell it?

Maybe I'll just have a beer.

GA