[s-cars] 6 avant replacement

[Mike Miller]

I find this all very amusing. I was searching for a sedan for several 
months (that wasn't red) and all I could find were avants.

mike in montana
95 S6, RS2 and black

On 1/30/2012 7:43 PM, Eric Sanborn wrote:
> 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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