Too Many Audis, Need Advice To Thin The Herd--Not a FS Post (Yet) and Long

[Joshua Van Tol]

That Allroad is going to put the hurt on you at some point. Torque converter
failures are common, as well as air suspension bits, blower motors, etc. As
someone who just traded a 2003 Allroad (66k miles) for a brandy new toyota
sienna, perhaps I'm biased, but this is my observation. The allroad is built
to a much lower standard longevity wise than earlier cars. My 1995.5 S6 with
174k has less squeaks and rattles, and is much easier to fix. The allroad
showed wear on most of the interior painted surfaces, the S6 only on the
sunroof knob. The overall feel of the older car is of much higher quality
construction, although the newer one is much more refined in many ways.

I'd ditch the allroad, and the 90, and perhaps the A6Q as well. I do not
regret the Toyota purchase one bit. It gets better mileage than the Allroad,
has loads more room, handles better in day to day driving, is much quieter,
and, (believe it or not) has about the same amount of grunt as the AR.


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Michael Veglia <msvphoto at pacbell.net>wrote:

> Really I don't want to let any of them go, but sadly I think we must thin
> the herd. We are having a property dispute with our front neighbors who we
> share a lot with and the result is we are now juggling too many cars on the
> street.
>
> A good friend just gave us his 2001 allroad with 153k (time will tell if
> this was a gift or a curse, but the timing was excellent since our ever
> reliable '95 A6 q avant just lost a water pump three weeks back and is under
> the knife). This brings to number of Audis in our house to five for a total
> of six vehicles (we have a '95 Toyota T100 pickup in addition to the small
> fleet of Audis). In addition our two young adult boys who still live at home
> each have Volvo 240 sedans. A lot of cars (and guess who maintains all of
> them).
>
> Three cars are off limits in this exercise, the T100 truck, my garage queen
> '83 Ur-Q, and the allroad (just because it was a generous gift and we hope
> to enjoy it a while). When we decide what to do any FS posts will go to
> Marketplace (etc.).
>
> What I am seeking at this point is advice on what to keep, what to let go,
> and how much I might ask. Location is Santa Cruz, CA. Descriptions as
> follows:
>
> 1986 4000 quattro, around 160k miles (actual--odo still works), interior
> fair, paint (Zermatt Silver) looks okay from the sides, bad on roof, hood,
> and trunk lid. Previous owner had new clutch, H&R springs, and Bilsteins
> done right before we bought the car (around 140k miles), new windshield,
> stock size Bridgestones worn about 50%, TB job (w/all pulleys and water
> pump) done around 145k. A couple of rust spots the size of quarters but not
> too bad. We have owned this car longer than anything we currently have. My
> wife is really attached to it. I am too actually (it is my 4th 4kq and my
> first Audi was a new '87 4kq 23 years ago).
>
> 1992 80 quattro, around 160k miles, interior nice (quattro script
> interior), paint (Alpine White) nice for age with small dings and blemishes
> but overall pretty nice exterior, 14" BBS wheels (needs tires), TB job, new
> radiator, new rear brakes, new rear struts all recently done. Trans makes
> noise, not too bad and has not changed since we bought it ~10k miles ago.
> I'm really attached to this car because it is a clean example of the last of
> the NA I5 quattros. It is less fun to drive than the 4kq, but much nicer on
> road trips. I lean towards keeping this one over the 4kq.
>
> 1995 A6 quattro avant, aka "the mommiewagon," around 212k miles, was
> repainted prior to our purchase and the pearl white paint looks very nice,
> interior (black leather) not so good (tears in front seats), semi-recent
> Boge turbo gas struts on all four corners, fairly fresh Bridgestone G019s on
> 16" fat fives, 10 disc changer and stock Bose system. Water pump died three
> weeks ago, lost coolant but never showed overheat on coolant or oil temp
> gauges, and thankfully did not skip any teeth on the timing belt (I verifies
> this with the cam lock tool). Doing TB/water pump job this weekend, fingers
> crossed and hoping no overheat damage. Trans noisy and clunks into 4th (the
> clunk into 4th has been there since we bought the car at 112k). We both love
> this car and it has been our primary family car and road tripper for 8 years
> and 100k miles. Major emotional attachment.
>
> I realize none of these are worth much. I would much rather keep them, but
> under the circumstances we really can't keep them all :(
>
> Any advice and/or condolences will be greatly appreciated. TIA
>
> Mike Veglia
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