New Owner - Aberdeen

[irn_bru_ce]

OK, so finally took a couple of photos of the car to start my intro thread. I had originally liked the idea of the RS4 about 2-3 years ago. My last car of 12.5 years, a saxo VTS, although mechanically perfect, it had just corroded on the sills and having already been welded I decided it was time to move on. The saxo had basically been my van, the back seats were removed and I usually had a bike in the back, or up to 4 adult MTBs on some occasions, so i needed a car with the space. I had toyed with the idea of a Clio trophy or an R26, but ended up looking at RS4 Avants.

I had been searching autotrader and pistonheads from last spring and getting to know what cars were going for, but come the winter time when I was looking to buy, the supply of Quattro cars for sale dried up a bit. I looked at a few cars, but found the dealers lacking in real knowledge and just full of sales patter, and never having any real paperwork to back up anything beyond the stamped service book. The car I ended up buying has had 2 previous forum owners, so including the earlier paperwork has quite a documented history. I didn't want a sunroof, but wanted the buckets, my ideal colour would have been red or black, but you can't see that from the inside not a major issue.

As far as brakes go I went for this car with the ceramics because I intend to keep it for a while and in the past I have never worn down brake discs. Due to me working abroad on a 4 week on/off rotation corrosion was always the killer of brake discs. So ceramics seemes the ideal soloution. The only issue with that is that I would have liked to fit a set of the narrower 18" winter wheels and a set of 235 winter grips come the snow time. I'll just have to remember I'm not in a 900kg car when the snow comes and take it easy

So from what I gather the car was a demonstrator for the first 1800 miles at possibly Stafford Audi as they did the PDI, then the car was owned for 3 years by a guy about 7 miles South of Aberdeen till 2010, then the 3rd owner was from a suburb of Aberdeen, he had the car from 2010 till 2012 and had a lot of work done by Aberdeen Audi, with a folder full of paperwork. The car then ended up at a garage called Klassicks at which point a forum member (Jonny) bought it and took it South then into mainland Europe. He performed a decoke on it and fitted an ITG filter, there is also some paperwork from an Austrian dealer, but it's all foreign writing. The car then came back to Aberdeen in 2013 with it's 5th owner, forum member StevoRS4, who actually lived just a couple streets away from the 3rd owner.

So now I have the car, upon decoding the build codes I noticed the car left Germany with steel brakes, so must have been upgraded at some point, it definitely had the ceramics at Klassicks. The owner from 07-10 can't remember which brakes it had, and the next owner till 2012 although keeping lots of paperwork didn't have any for any pad changes or brake upgrades, so not sure if the original dealer upgraded then for demonstrator duties or what happened.

So here are a few of photos just to comply with rule 1







First purchase was a Jack, after query the forum on steel or alloy A4 jack, I got a link from Iain_S4 for the A6 jack with the correct tip to fit the RS4 jacking point, also when it arrived turned out it was also alloy, so weighs nothing, will just cut some of the divider in the boot to keep it in there, part number 4F0 011 031



Then up was a space saver, went for the A5 wheel with 125/70r19, so same rolling radius as the 255/35r19, but just realise when it arrived that the centre is 66mm, so will need a reducer for it, does anybody know the best place for that, also can I use the wheel bolts from the standard alloys for the space saver? The wheel was £50 from ebay, with a brand new tyre, lots of the space savers on there have been used so didn't fancy them



Also bought a metal tommy bar for guiding the wheels off and on, and the plastic one looked a bit limp that comes with the car, and save me dropping the wheel onto the ceramic disc when removing or refitting

Under the car was a non-res non-valved Milltek. On the MOT it had noted a small exhaust leak, upon inspection, 3 of the 6 clamps were broken, and one of them wasn't even a milltek clamp, so fitted 6 Mikallor 66mm W4 clamps in the meantime till I order the correct Milltek clamps, which are £6 each plus postage from Milltek.









So because I am away working half of the time, I bought a car cover from Audi_Pardner, not used it yet, but this was a photo of the cover on his car



I have also bought a 2012 RNS-E unit from ebay, so will be looking to fit that soon, plus a previous forum owner Jonny bought a Rosstech for the car, so I'll have to work out how to connect that and have a poke around with the settings for various stuff

Hope this satisfies as a decent introduction post

[Dallas83]

Congrats on the purchase mate! Just made the long drive last night down south for mine, picking up this morning ) ! Maybe see you about.,,,

Cheers

[Ellis]

Welcome.

Always good to see another owner from the Aberdeen area.

Assuming that's Avus Silver? I don't see many of them going about, particularly on the Avant platform.

[irn_bru_ce]

I'll keep my eyes peeled for the Imola saloon, good luck with the drive up

Yeah Avus silver avant, maybe catch up with you's at the regional meets , viewforum.php?f=114

[Ellis]

I'll keep my eyes peeled for the Imola saloon, good luck with the drive up

Yeah Avus silver avant, maybe catch up with you's at the regional meets , viewforum.php?f=114

Yeah sounds good. I'd be keen to get a cover for my car over the winter - is yours a bespoke fit or a generic car cover?

[Deano_123]

Much prefer the avants over the saloons, were you the guy on Sax-P looking for info on RS4's recently?

[edge]

FON and welcome along, car looks great!

[irn_bru_ce]

Its a bespoke cover , by specialist covers, model is a stromshield

I did have an account on sax-p, but I was a saxosports guy, had like 5000 posts on there before it disappeared

Would like to sell the saxo box as its got a Quaiffe ATB in it, but not sure if many saxo/106 owners looking these days

[Deano_123]

What type of gearbox is it and much you after? I've got a rallye box in mine but looking for an LSD

I should have mine back from mapping in a week or so ready for racing

[irn_bru_ce]

The gearbox has the standard sport ratios with the same Final drive ratio as the VTS, 3.94 if my memory is correct.

I sourced a crown wheel and pinion from mankee from an older citroen that had the same ratio, but was slightly straighter cut, maybe like 20% straighter, so not an actual proper straight cut box.

I bought the ATB from Kiwi Motorsport, a customer wanted to compare the ATB over a with a gripper diff, so it had only covered 200 miles when I bought it. I then sent it to Quaiffe for them to fit the crown wheel I got from mankee, then a local specialist changed the pinion and rebuilt the box. My car only ever had road tyres fitted, and was just fitted with breathing mods, so the gearbox has had an easy life, covered approx 20k since fitted

also got a set of C5 alloy wheels if you were interested in them
wishbones with alloy and nylon rear mounts, poly race from mounts and recent ball joints
20mm torsion bars, 24mm rear ARB
Vibratechnics engine mounts
Group N top mounts

The combination of the light wheels(4.8kg each) the firmed up wishbones, lower brace and vibra engine mounts meant the car had tons of feed back, the ATB diff was the icing on the cake for blasting round back roads. But even just getting away from traffic lights quick the diff helped, when ever I drove a hire car I hated the open diff, too much wheel spin. The ATB is brilliant, it just does its job with no fuss, you forget its there until you don't have it

[Audi Pardner]

Nice write up and a great looking car, especially with the ceramics. The jack part no is handy too as I need to get one.

Were the straps I sent with the cover the correct ones? If not, let me know!

[Deano_123]

The gearbox has the standard sport ratios with the same Final drive ratio as the VTS, 3.94 if my memory is correct.

I sourced a crown wheel and pinion from mankee from an older citroen that had the same ratio, but was slightly straighter cut, maybe like 20% straighter, so not an actual proper straight cut box.

I bought the ATB from Kiwi Motorsport, a customer wanted to compare the ATB over a with a gripper diff, so it had only covered 200 miles when I bought it. I then sent it to Quaiffe for them to fit the crown wheel I got from mankee, then a local specialist changed the pinion and rebuilt the box. My car only ever had road tyres fitted, and was just fitted with breathing mods, so the gearbox has had an easy life, covered approx 20k since fitted

also got a set of C5 alloy wheels if you were interested in them
wishbones with alloy and nylon rear mounts, poly race from mounts and recent ball joints
20mm torsion bars, 24mm rear ARB
Vibratechnics engine mounts
Group N top mounts

The combination of the light wheels(4.8kg each) the firmed up wishbones, lower brace and vibra engine mounts meant the car had tons of feed back, the ATB diff was the icing on the cake for blasting round back roads. But even just getting away from traffic lights quick the diff helped, when ever I drove a hire car I hated the open diff, too much wheel spin. The ATB is brilliant, it just does its job with no fuss, you forget its there until you don't have it

Send me a PM with what your after for the box, a mate is looking for one

[marc1]

Corners looks good mate. Now let's see the whole car Get some more picures up.

[irn_bru_ce]

Here you go, full side picture

[MikeFish]

Welcome, that looks like a fine example you've got there. Now time to get those winter tyres off and see what these machines can really do in the dry with summer tyres!