A6 4.2L - pros and cons?

[Fred Munro]

Huw;

A friend of mine bought of those unsleeved Vegas as his first new car. When
he hit 100,000 miles on the original engine the GM dealership he bought it
from had him come in and threw a little party. The GM rep was there and told
him GM would buy the car back from him for its original purchase price. He
sold it back to them shortly thereafter. I guess he got the extreme tail on
the good side of the binomial distribution, and maybe they got to learn what
they did right with that one.

Fred

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From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Huw Powell
Sent: January 8, 2009 12:37 AM
To: Dave
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: A6 4.2L - pros and cons?


My Vega had an aluminum block.

It didn't work out well until they sleeved the cylinders with steel.

'74 Vega (unlseeved): engine lasted 40k if lucky

'76 Vega (sleeved): lasted 120k or so.  Came with 60k engine warranty
out of desperation.

My two Audis?  Bought at 146k and 207k.

Dave wrote:
> lol, i believe that the small block buick v8 has the unofficial title of
the
> "worst engine in the world". so bad in fact that the poms paid good money
to
> buy it from gm and shove it into rovers and range rovers and release it on
> an unsuspecting public. as much as they tried to put lipstick on it, it
> always grunted and squealed.  ironically it was the aussi's that finally
> re-engineered the engine (head mainly) to be reasonable and put it, in
4.2l
> guise into a absolutely donkey of a car, the leyland p76.  however, to
this
> day, jet boats in nz are powered by derivatives of this engine (amongst
> others).  and a long, long time ago, in a parallel universe, i put one
into
> a land rover.
>
> them wuz the days...
>
> dave
> '03 rs6
> '04 allroad tdi
>
>
>
> On 8/01/09 5:24 PM, "quattro-request at audifans.com"
> <quattro-request at audifans.com> wrote:
>
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:24:10 -0500
>> From: "John Lagnese" <jlagnese at massed.net>
>> Subject: RE: A6 4.2L - pros and cons?
>> To: "'Tony Hoffman'" <auditony at gmail.com>, <cobram at juno.com>
>> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>> Message-ID: <D8E2A02417B3420382850F3B3780B67D at wylied4e8841db>
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>> The early 60's Buicks had a small aluminum block v-8. It was a 215 cubic
>> inch unit. That's about a 3.5 liter engine. It was in the Specials and
>> Skylarks.
>> John
>
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