sanity check in aisle 9.. 2005 a6 v8 sline

[Vincent Gelinas]

My A8, driven gently at 75mph here in the mountains, gets about 27mpg on the
highway and 15-18 in the city, again driven mostly carefully.  Hooning and
stomping on the gas will drain your wallet pretty quick.  I think the tank
is the same as in the a8, so about 24 gallons.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:27 AM, thejimrose <thejimrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks guys. looks to be a pretty nice ride overall. ppl say around 22mpg
> on
> the highway which isnt terrible. no worse than my brothers outback wagon..
>
> ill let you know what i wind up with...
>
> cheers
> jim
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Tony Hoffman <auditony at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My experience is that the C6 is definately a better car than the C5 it
> > replaced, but they are newer as well, so not as much time for things to
> > break (like the window regulator clips). I'm pretty sure the V8's are
> timing
> > chain as well, switched from belts in the previous model. MAKE SURE you
> do
> > oil changes every 5k max. ALL of these late model VAG engines have sludge
> > issues, and if those timing chain tensioners got gummed up, you are
> looking
> > at $$$$! Chains at teh back of the engine, does it look easy to pull?
> Nope,
> > and it will cost some good amount of money to fix.
> >
> > Other than that, they appear to be good cars, and certainly very solidly
> > built, even stronger than the previous A6, which was no wet noodle. Check
> > out vids on teh side impact crash on youtube, you will be sold!! The car
> > hardly deforms at all, mostly bends in the sheetmetal.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Grant Lenahan <glenahan at vfemail.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> The 4.2 V8 is bulletproof for the most part. Hope your gas-buying wallet
> >> is too.
> >>
> >> They are complicated. need a VAG tool to do rear brakes (electric
> parking
> >> brake), etc.
> >>
> >> I believe the stats on audi basically say "newer is better"
> >>
> >> Grant
> >>  On Oct 25, 2011, at 8:26 PM, thejimrose wrote:
> >>
> >> > hey kids - just totaled the 08 a4 last week. need to replace it STAT.
> >> found
> >> > the above local with 47k, 1 owner, looks to be well maintained for
> $18k.
> >> > seems like a score. beautiful car. bit of a grandpa mobile but i need
> >> that -
> >> > slow it down a bit. little bigger, quieter, comfier, etc.
> >> >
> >> > am i walking into a nightmare here? i know there's LOTS of doodads to
> >> break,
> >> > and the v8's can be expensive to maintain but what a nice car.
> >> >
> >> > TIA
> >> > jim
> >>
> >
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