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

[Vincent Frégeac]

And that will probably make the RS6 the perfect toy car for the mechanically
inclined who want a cheap, very fast, third or fourth car, but probably a
nightmare as a daily driver...

... in a few years, watch it.




Vincent.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] De la part de Taka Mizutani
Envoyé : 3 janvier 2007 20:10
À : calvinlc at earthlink.net
Cc : //Scar //Scar list
Objet : Re: [s-cars] Subject: NAC: GT3RS - muwhahaha - pardon

I knew someone would pull up some labor rates on the RS6- thanks, Calvin!

That maintenance is ridiculous- it's the kind of car that once your free
maintenance and
warranty have expired, you want to get rid of it ASAP.

Taka


On 1/3/07, calvinlc at earthlink.net <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of matt ludwig.
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:55 PM
> To: //Scar //Scar list
> 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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