OK some may recognise the forum name from Overclockers UK, yes its the same me.
Now I am selling my 2016 highly modified Mustang GT 5.0 to make way for a new MY18 arriving Spring/Summer next year. In the meantime I will need another car to accompany my track focused E46 M3, I was thinking of another EVO X but as I've owned one before and yes it was fantastic a good friend of mine, Housey who may or may not be on here recommended an RS4, something I had forgotten about even though he gave me the keys to his and I gave him the keys to my EVO X. As such it makes better sense to grab an RS4 as I've never owned one before.
Now I've being looking through all the adverts and it seems around 15k will get me quite a nice car, I don't mind a high miler by the way, just want a car that drives good and is a saloon, for me mileage is not an issue as long as it has FSH and problems have being dealt with.
Now the questions I have:
1. What to look / check for on a check over the car and a drive, either as passenger or driver.
2. I see so many cars have Bilstein coilovers, due to some DRZ issue with stock shocks. Now this is an issue for me because what makes the RS4 fantastic is its ability on a wet British B road as the stock shocks are quite compliant, my experience with cheap coilovers is you loose the compliance and thus wet road holding ability, I want the car to handle and ride like stock, I do not want it firmer or harsher, so how do the Bilstein compare for ride comfort and grip on a wet road?
3. Tyres, do these car love PS4s and MPSS like other cars, or is there another favoured tyre of choice, also what is the stock tyre size?
4. I see all cars seem advertised as carbon cleaned, this says to me this is not done and just advertising. How much for a good clean?
5. Gutting stock pre-cats, worth it?
That is it really, Ideally just want a clean stock car, high miles is fine.
