2004 S4 Avant

[Grant Lenahan]

I would nto be all that concerned with the timing chain - if and only if - its been well maintained.

These things are quite durable. Poor maint is a no go on any used car purchase.

Grant
On Feb 5, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Eric Sanborn wrote:

> 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.
> 
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> Eric
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Grant Lenahan
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