[s-cars] Subject: NAC: GT3RS - muwhahaha - pardon

[Taka Mizutani]

Anything that's hard to get to is going to cost you a ton in labor since the
engine
is wedged in there.

C5 electrical systems aren't that great- climate control unit, radio, window
switches,
sunroof switches, instrument clusters (gee, not much has changed in the 10
yrs. from
C4 to C5).

I'd be seriously concerned about the cooling system and its longevity in the
RS6 (considering
that this was a major issue in the development of the car) and how the
associated heat will
deteriorate everything else under the hood of the car. I've experienced this
with a DSM- the
heat cooks everything under the hood and you experience failure of pretty
much everything
rubber and plastic.

Sorry, I like the S8 better for a big slushbox sedan. That's a place where
I'd really rather go
manual transmission and do a E39 540i/M5 or CTS-V, damn the reliability
issues of both. I
don't know what I'd do in the snow, though.

Taka


On 1/3/07, Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> so what are the trouble spots on the RS6?
>
> as for the transmission, there are plenty of strong automatics.
> i just don't know if any of them are german.
>
> -t.
>