A sad day

Post by **Jezzer** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:04 pm

My RS is now one year old and has 5,600 miles from new. I bought my car for weekends, family days out and the odd evening out. I use my company van during the week and look forward so much to the weekend so I can go out and give it a blast. It's going for an annual inspection on Saturday and to also change the oil and filter. It's doesn't have any stone chips, scratches, carpark dents, kerbed alloys and the interior looks as good as the day it was built. That's the way I like my car to look, I'm sure it wouldn't look this way if it had been used on a daily basis. At the end of the day you buy your own car to use it the way you want to use it.

Post by **berry100** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:14 pm

Yikes I wasn't expecting abuse for making a personal decision to get more of a mileage muncher for myself!!!

As much as I enjoyed mine in the time I had it, I decided personally on a mileage muncher oil burner whilst I'm doing silly miles (the rate i.m going currently clocking approx 30k PA just for work commuting!)....

I'd rather be racking up 7,000 a year taking it out for a thrash at the weekend on the B roads rather than pounding the motorway day in day out which I was doing at the time........

I will prob in future end up with something for the weekends in the garage, but right now wasn't the time to do it with the RS..... IF THAT'S OKAY!

ps Thanks Jezzer...I echo your comments

Post by **t_urbo** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:44 pm

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Totally agree! mine new one arrives this week and I bought it on the basis that I intend to do over 20k a year in her !! Surely if your doing shed loads of miles you want to do it with a big smile on your face. I'm always suspicous of low milage cars that have been sitting around on a drive or in a garage and never get used... Ive seen a few low milage B5's and couldnt understand how a 7 year old car has only done 40k??? Why? OK theres a cost thing petrol wise but surely if you fork out 50k ish for a car you can afford the juice... Besides thats what expenses are for

Its also a bit like being married to Angelina Joilie and having her locked away in the spare room and never get her out to play. Mind you I always went for the high milage birds as well

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Old Slappers!

Post by **t_urbo** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:56 pm

berry100 wrote:Yikes I wasn't expecting abuse for making a personal decision to get more of a mileage muncher for myself!!!

As much as I enjoyed mine in the time I had it, I decided personally on a mileage muncher oil burner whilst I'm doing silly miles (the rate i.m going currently clocking approx 30k PA just for work commuting!)....

I'd rather be racking up 7,000 a year taking it out for a thrash at the weekend on the B roads rather than pounding the motorway day in day out which I was doing at the time........

I will prob in future end up with something for the weekends in the garage, but right now wasn't the time to do it with the RS..... IF THAT'S OKAY!

ps Thanks Jezzer...I echo your comments

Your right it's not really a commuting car, its a drivers car that can ferry the kids and a bit of shopping every now and then.

If your driving 30k a year up and down motorways sitting in endless traffic you may as well be in an oil burner.

Post by **hertfordshire1** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:47 pm

I commute in mine, because at some point in the journey, the traffic will clear, or i'll be first at a set of lights and then it will be all worth it..

Post by **berry100** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:59 pm

I did come of the motorway at an earlier junction a few times, just to get an A/B road blast before arriving at work 10 min later

Got to be fair to the oil burner I've got though, beaut looking car both inside and out , dare I say better looking than me ex RS....but it will never drive like it........

One day....it will return when the time is right

Post by **MEV** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:38 am

berry100 wrote:Yikes I wasn't expecting abuse for making a personal decision to get more of a mileage muncher for myself!!!

As much as I enjoyed mine in the time I had it, I decided personally on a mileage muncher oil burner whilst I'm doing silly miles (the rate i.m going currently clocking approx 30k PA just for work commuting!)....

I'd rather be racking up 7,000 a year taking it out for a thrash at the weekend on the B roads rather than pounding the motorway day in day out which I was doing at the time........

I will prob in future end up with something for the weekends in the garage, but right now wasn't the time to do it with the RS..... IF THAT'S OKAY!

ps Thanks Jezzer...I echo your comments

Apologies Berry, no abuse intended far from it

I totally understand why your doing the change and i'm sure the new car looks superb. It was just my personal opinion that when you own such a wonderful car as this surely your want to spend loads of time driving it. No ? Yes I do agree with the argument that you look forward even more to the weekends but it would drive me nuts knowing its locked up in a garage all week. I'm not a lover of oil burners. I drive my colleagues at work mad as they all drive big burners but none really enjoy it...unfortunatly and MPG torque etc to one side, I just cant get to grip with the rattle (lack of soundtrack)poor low end revs and clouds of smog everywhere!!

Had to have a courtesy car for the last 2 weeks new A6 TDi and it was awful. Even the missus said it sounded like a bus. Again no offence intended. I bet your back soon and I'm sure Ill bite the bullet in years to come myself perhaps when a RS4-D comes out!

Post by **PetrolDave** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:56 pm

t_urbo wrote:Your right it's not really a commuting car, its a drivers car that can ferry the kids and a bit of shopping every now and then.

My RS4 is my ONLY car so I use it for commuting to work (5 miles each way), weekends out, holidays to France, visits to DIY stores, etc. and do a total of about 12K miles per year.

An RS4 is meant to be DRIVEN, and that means doing miles.

Initially it's surprising how much fun a "scenic route back" from a DIY store can be!!!

Post by **berry100** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:37 pm

PetrolDave wrote:
t_urbo wrote:Your right it's not really a commuting car, its a drivers car that can ferry the kids and a bit of shopping every now and then.
My RS4 is my ONLY car so I use it for commuting to work (5 miles each way), weekends out, holidays to France, visits to DIY stores, etc. and do a total of about 12K miles per year.

An RS4 is meant to be DRIVEN, and that means doing miles.

Initially it's surprising how much fun a "scenic route back" from a DIY store can be!!!

Hmm if i only did 5 miles each way to work, you could bet yer bottom dollar that the RS would still be sat on my drive now!!!

Well it wouldn't actually! I'd be blasting up and down a few of the B roads near work right now

Post by **TDiAvant** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:50 pm

Well I've just done the same thing. I'm finding most of my miles these days are just boring motorway miles and lots of them. So I just picked up a 7 month old 4.2TDi A8. OK it's no RS4 but for cruising down the motorway it's a hell of a machine. When I stop ding 20K miles each year I will be back in an RS but feck knows when that will be.

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