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

calvinlc at earthlink.net calvinlc at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 3 20:12:54 EST 2007


Matt:  I think when they were new, at 80k that was definitely the case.
however, now that you can find them for the price of some domestic pickup
trucks, it's a little different story.

The best example I can think of is that the book for changing an 02 sensor
on the RS6 is 24 hours!!!  So let's see, $160 for the part and $2400 for
labor...ouch.

--Calvin


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


gut tells me; if you are in the market for an RS6, your wallet ain't
really caring about the labor costs to fix that "tightly wedged
engine".....

; )


matt.

1995.5 S6 Avant
South Portland, Maine


On Jan 3, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Taka Mizutani wrote:

> Well, you're covered with the warranty, aren't you? :-)
>
> If you blow the trans, maybe you can convert it to manual.
>
> I never really warmed up to the RS6, but maybe that's because I
> don't have
> enough
> seat time in one- I've only had two looooong test drives in them
> (unsupervised, fun runs).
>
> The RS6 has too many maintenance issues- the engine is so tightly
> wedged
> into the car that
> I can't see much of anything being easy to service. That's a car
> that would
> get really expensive
> in terms of labor costs for a lot of things, and I thought the B5
> S4 was
> bad. I'm also more than
> a little leery of using an automatic transmission to put that much
> torque to
> the wheels- I know
> that MBZ runs a ton more torque in something like a S65, that's
> probably
> just an irrational concern.
>
>
>
> Taka
>
>
> On 1/3/07, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Yeah, totally agreed Taka - you'd have to be a wicked glutton (um,
>> hmmm...  Mikey _does_ qualify), or be rather well backed to afford
>> the wear
>> and tear on a used out of warranty RS6.  Run for the hills, I say.
>>
>> Hell, I'm hoping I dodge that bullet on the UrS8 even.  I better.
>>
>> Judging from what (little) I could see of Mikey whooping my //S8
>> while
>> (pathetically "attempting") to keep pace in his 356B, I'd say
>> Mikey Likes
>> It.  My guess is he'll have one come spring.  $17.9k for an '02
>> with 60k???
>> Dayum.
>>
>> FWIW - I still chuckle maniacally while piloting der beast,
>> daily.  Its
>> pretty darn cool, in so so many ways.
>>
>> -Paul friends with cool cars / jalopies for self K.
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* Taka Mizutani [mailto:t44tqtro at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:12 AM
>> *To:* Mike Platt
>> *Cc:* Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK); s-car-list at audifans.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [s-cars] Subject: NAC: GT3RS - muwhahaha - pardon
>>
>> RS6? You're really wanting to subject yourself to torture then,
>> when you
>> start
>> paying maintenance bills on that one.
>>
>> I'd stick to the S8.
>>
>> Taka
>>
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