[s-cars] How failtastic is the B7 S4 automatic / B5 stick Avant anyone?

[Brett Dikeman]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM,  <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:

> I've not driven one mit tip, but a 4.2 coupled mit Tip - well - that I'm
> well school'd in.

You have a D2 S8, right?  Wouldn't they have different transmissions?
Probably different gearing, certainly different programming.  Which
reminds me, I keep hearing that there are at least 2-3 different
tuners who will reprogram tiptronics for a number of Audis/VWs, and I
see people raving about the changes.  Hmm.

> In 'this' (B'er Avant'er) vain…  any interest in *THE* cleanest '01 stick
> Avant ~ 100k all everything just done (NEW PS2's / brakes / tbelt / etc. /
> etc. / etc.)???  Silver / black, new Xe's mounted (not due to wreck but due
> to wear), one owner, bone stock…  just fookin' CLEAN.

I'm not looking for a nine year old / 100k car.  I know when chipped
many consider them faster than the B6/B7 and better handlers/lighter,
but right now, age/mileage/reliability is more important to me than a
few tenths of a second.

>  I'll post separately, but, I know these cars have near stalker-like cult following (IMO/E)

B5 S4's?  I count almost ten of them in Boston Craigslist, though I
didn't try too hard to distinguish duplicate listings.

And, as always, for-sale items belong in the marketplace, and the
marketplace only, please.  The marketplace gets thousands of hits a
day and there's even a notification list people can subscribe to for
new posts.

Brett