A6 4.2L - pros and cons?

[nick lawrence]

How long for the lifetime airfilter??
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at humanspeakers.com>
To: "Dave" <dave.eaton at clear.net.nz>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:37 AM
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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