[s-cars] 6 avant replacement

[Eric Sanborn]

I have never owned an S6A, but I wanted one for quite a while.  I had
 super nice '98 A6A, but I couldn't live with the slush box and absolute
lack of power.  Still a fantastic car.  I finally moved away from the S6A
as a dream car due to the crazy prices and lack of a middle shoulder belt
for hauling kids.  This past summer I picked up an 01 allroad with a 6 spd
in mint condition.  It took about 18 months to find, but I found it just
down the road in Bristol, TN of all places.  It has the stage 1 APR for 91,
93, and 104 octane, but I currently still run it stock.  I have played with
91 octane and it is very fun.  309 hp I think, but gobs of torque.  I just
put Bilsteins on the back when I had to replace a rear airbag.  It really
helped with the bad squat it had under acceleration.  I want to do the
front and eventually the H-sport bars.

I really love the car.  Thinking back to my '83 GTI and then '85 4ktq days
I never thought I would have a car with a heated steering wheel, didn't
even know it existed.

-Eric

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Wylie Bean <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>wrote:

> If my allroad had been a 6spd I'd have kept it, ditched the air springs
> and gone to coilovers, done APR software and better pads in the HP2
> calipers and left it alone. The C5 chassis is more kind to stock turbos,
> and upgrading to K04s would have probably been my course of action although
> I never really researched it much. Once I realized how prone to failure the
> torque converters are I traded it.  BTW, not to "shoo you away,(and you my
> have already found them)" but the allroad forums on QW are fantastic and
> loaded with helpful people and info.
> Best o' luck with it.  I'd take another one in a hearbeat.
>
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