2004 S4 Avant

[Eric Sanborn]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> I'd be more concerned with maintenance receipts. Google says the timing
> chain
> tensioner should be replaced every 75K miles. [1] The timing chain itself
> is
> a "lifetime" item, but googling also finds that if oil changes were
> neglected
> and the car was beat on, then 100K is a lifetime. Replacing the chain is an
> expensive, engine-out job. I don't know about the tensioner.
>
> [1] I originally was thinking timing belt, but the V8 doesn't have one.
> That's the good news. The bad news is the timing chain is at the rear
> of the engine, which is why it has to come out for a timing chain repair.
> Ka-Ching!!! $$$
>  <http://www.audifans.com/kb/List_information>
>

I am friends with the owner of a local independent shop that works mostly on
German cars.  He recently got one of these in for a timing chain service.  I
don't recall why it needed it.  After looking into the details he put it on
a roll back to the dealer.  He said a crate motor was over $10k from Audi
and he didn't want to take on that kind of liability.

All that being said if I had the cash I would love to own one, especially
the manual Avant like you are looking at.

--
Eric

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