To add my 2 cents worth....I wouldn't be put off buying a reasonably high mileage one. I got mine with 79k miles on it, stock exhaust, doesnt smoke at all, still goes like s..t off a shovel. As far as I can tell, its sound as a pound. The engines in them are extremely well built, and if maintained r...
Mines on a ship in the Med heading to nz at present. I had th Goodys on a week b4 shipping and didnt notice any problems, which included a good thrashing around some b roads out of town. When I get it out of the container in 5 or 6 weeks, I'll have a good look at it. I assume theres a batch number p...
Yeh, hope it helps someone out. I can see owning a RS4 is going to be a steep learning curve for me to maintain myself when I get it to New Zealand in a couple of months. Last car I really worked on was my mk1 Cortina 20 years ago! Looking foward to the challenge. Re tensioners: I meant the idler/te...
Oil seperator needs replacing apparently. Hope this helps anyone with a similar problem, and saves them 500 odd quid that audi would charge them. I would never have found it myself
Just bought a second hand '06 RS4 2 weeks ago, similar problem. Wasnt apparent on test drive, but developed intermittently, and last saturday became a full on screech. Sounded like an idler/tensioner bearing failing, but in audi workshop today and all bearings ok. Tech said it disappeared when a vac...