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Hi all,

Firstly greetings to all and a Happy New Year!

I've recently taken the plunge and bought myself a Daytona Grey '08 RS6. Initially I was looking for a low mileage '08 model with a few options like advanced key and sunroof, but unfortunately all the one's that I looked at were not well looked after. I ended up popping up to Peterborough Audi to inspect one they they had with 55k on the clock. Whilst this had more mileage on it then I ideally wanted and didn't have the options I wanted, it was in very good condition and just felt right. After negotiating a good trade on the wife's MB C350 and negotiating new discs and pads all round, I ended up paying £30k. This was with a service just carried out, 12 months tax and 12 months warranty. Hopefully you'll tell me I didn't overpay! I think I did alright particularly after seeing what else is out there at this price bracket. I pick the car up this Saturday and will probably not get much sleep until then in eager anticipation.

I have a fairly extensive car history, mainly due to cars not holding my attention for too long. My last car was a SLK55 which I owned for a couple of years which is the longest I've ever held onto a car. I'm hoping that the RS6 will keep me interested for at least a few years.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading up on all I can, and am sure that it won't take me too long before undertaking mods to the exhaust and remapping! I hope I can contribute to the forum.

Thanks
Michael

FON

Good price

Now get it remapped, you've only got half the car.

Nice...a bit jealous!!! look forward to seeing more.enjoy

Welcome to the forum. The warranty, tax and service when I had them all done was just under £3k, so for £30k I'd say you got a really good deal.

Get some photos up, get it mapped (MRC), and enjoy.

Not to mention brakes!

4x new wheels tomorrow too! On the plus side, the alcantara wheel came up really well with some alcantara cleaner so that doesn't need a re-trim anymore.

Suede

Thanks for the welcome so far. Relieved to hear that I got a good deal. I do know that I screwed Audi as far as they would go as the day I viewed the car we were £500 apart from agreeing a deal. I walked away, viewed a private car the following day, and ended up calling Audi the following day agreeing to pay the additional £500.

Plans thus far are:

1) Either Milltek or custom zorst;
2). ITG filters;
3). Remap;
4). Window tints;
5). Possibly 8mm spacers.

I am also going to see how good/bad the Bose system is. If not up to scratch I may end up putting some JL Audio gear I have laying around.

I'll stick some pics up once I have had a chance to detail the car properly.

Thanks
Michael

The BOSE in the RS 6 is fantastic IMO.

Mr V10 wrote:The BOSE in the RS 6 is fantastic IMO.

As Amar says, only if set up correctly.

Trups

Ozmikeuk wrote:
1) custom zorst;

Thanks
Michael

I have my custom Zorst if your interested in that?

Trups

Trups - what in your view are the best settings? Been fiddling with mine lately but not yet hit the sweet spot.

Woly64 wrote:Trups - what in your view are the best settings? Been fiddling with mine lately but not yet hit the sweet spot.

Woly.

It took me a year to find this setting..

how I had mine was: Treble on full. Bass either at 2pm or 3pm depending on how much bass you like. DSP bose setting put that on Surround rear. Then put a track on, crank up the volume and you will see how great this System is, I thought it wasn't great at 1st and thought something wasn't right but that was just the way the last owner had it.

one of the last lot of songs that I noticed really sounded great on it was Naughty Boy - la la la, maybe not to some people's taste but well worth having a listen in the car.

Great song.

Cheers Trups - off to meet Amarillo @ MRC to hand over my gloss Titan 7 spokes tomorrow early doors so will apply your settings, dial up Naughty Boy and let you know what I think.

Trups wrote:

Ozmikeuk wrote:
1) custom zorst;

Thanks
Michael

I have my custom Zorst if your interested in that?

Trups

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