sanity check in aisle 9.. 2005 a6 v8 sline

[Tony Hoffman]

The 3.2's, as mentioned, are pretty peppy. I've driven plenty of both C6
3.2's and 4.2's, and honestly, till you get near tripple digits the
difference is somewhat hord to feel. Though, the V8 with a nice exhaust(one
customer's car) certainly sounds a lot faster ;-P

The Allroad CAN be very expensive to maintain. Have several as customer
cars, and they have rolled out over $3k on several occasions. I've seen the
chain tensioner guides break, TC's go bad, air suspension problems all over
the board, plus the typical climate control/power window/etc issues of
Audi's that we all love so much. Ok, I just love the rest of the car enough
to put up with those sort of issues. I feel like I'm in an -ahaulics
meating, "Hi, my name is Tony, and I'm an Audihaulic".

The gearing seems to be the big issue with the S4's and S6's, as I've seen
plenty of A8's get 25+ hwy avearge. My old V8Q would get the same, got 27
once, and I rarely average under 75 ;-)

I get 21-22 in town avearge with the 4000Q in my daily driving. 25-26
highway, and in neither case am I easy on the throttle. Hey, it's got 115hp,
what do you expect? That is my calculation (after rebuilding the
speedo/odo), not the computer. It tends to be 1mpg optimistic, as a minimum.

8500 for a six speed is a screaming deal, from what they sell for here. just
a regular auto with small issues will bring 8k here (Houston).

Tony

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Vincent Gelinas <vrgelinas at gmail.com>wrote:

> The allroad is a great piece of kit.  I was also looking at an 03? allroad
> with the 2.7tt and a six speed.  Slick car.
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Michael Veglia <msvphoto at pacbell.net
> >wrote:
>
> > Bad news Jim, sorry to hear it, but glad to hear you are okay!
> >
> > The only Audi 4.2 I have driven (besides a Q7) is, I suspect, the same
> one
> > you drove (that red STaSIS S5 with the 6 speed). I sure didn't get even
> > close to 27mpg ;)
> >
> > Anyway, after a year and a half of allroad ownership I have to say these
> > things grow on you. I never would have bought it, it was given to me by a
> > generous close friend, but I sure am liking it for the combination of
> > performance and versatility. So far it has not been the nightmare I
> > anticipated. Mileage sucks at around 15 city and 21 highway (on crappy
> > California gas which sucks the fuel economy out of the best of them).
> Then
> > again pretty much everything I own seems to get around the same mileage.
> The
> > big Ford truck a little less, the '83 UrQ (or maybe the '86 4kq) a little
> > more, but really all are within a couple or three MPG of each other.
>