[s-cars] S4 Avant

[Taka Mizutani]

John-
The other thing to think about is when it will happen again. Is there a
permanent fix for the timing chain problem? If not, it's bound to happen
again, so a $6 to $10k job will occur again at some future date.

That's another thing to think about with these cars (I'd rather own a
Testarossa for maintenance costs).



On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:53 AM, JC <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:

> JHM whatever.  The link by Cody shows all the parts and prices. You've
> picked a super "FULL PLUS" bundle by one particular part vendor in the biz
> of selling lots of parts where it looks like they've tossed in anything
> vaguely they could think of excusing doing at the same time. And you will
> note I agreed with replacing more stuff than less so don't put up a straw
> man there, however there are examples of things being tossed into those
> kits that may not even be wear items and/or can be done from above later
> if/when necessary, so its not false economy to not necessarily thrown the
> house at it and replace stuff that may be perfectly fine and easy to do
> later.
>
> And yeah this exactly the anecdotal "my friend had a / i new a guy / I saw
> a post on the internet" stuff that the smart folks know to discount against
> statistical information regardless of the car involved...
> (as well as what does "it was toast" mean? does that mean not worth the
> cost of the timing chain service vs. a used motor? that's what a lot of
> guys turn out to mean... or does it mean that valves really tapped
> pistons... when I was researching these I chased down a number of "my motor
> was blown" stories on these cars that turned out to be "well dealer said it
> was going to be $8-10k to do the job so I consider the engine blown" -
> that's all well and good for the guy making the call but there's a factual
> difference between junked engine internals and just the same core problem
> that we are talking here w/ the timing chain systems needing to be done. )
>
> And again - note I'm still with the idea to stay away from these unless
> they are super cheap or done already.
>
> Just saying lets stick to facts, and facts are it's not the
> Hindenberg-crashes-into-**Titanic disaster that some make it out to be
> either in terms of frequency especially and to a lesser degree the total
> cost.
>
> /thread
>
>
> On 5/5/2013 10:24, Josh wrote:
>
>> The jhm timing chain kit for this car is $4500.
>>
>> To go through the trouble of yanking the motor and not replacing
>> everything is false economy.
>>
>> My friends b6 s4 threw the cam code and even though the motor still ran,
>> it was toast.
>>
>
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