New owner of 2003 RS6 C5 Saloon

[norwichphoto]

Someone didn't read the small print before they posted to Facebook...

Band K* 201 to 225g/km - £ 330/yr.
Band M - over 255g/km - £ 580/yr.

* Band K also includes any car with a CO2 figure over 225g/km providing they were registered prior to 23/03/2006.

Apologies for any increased heart rates / blood pressure / buttock clenching.

[Human Joist]

How much is it going up by then ? I only tax for half the year at it lives in the garage for the winter

[steve2003rs6]

Just hate paying my road tax. Wouldn’t mind a increase if it meant that we got some decent roads to drive on.
But as usual our payments will go towards everything except our roads.
Don’t get me started on pot holes.

[Human Joist]

Just hate paying my road tax. Wouldn’t mind a increase if it meant that we got some decent roads to drive on.
But as usual our payments will go towards everything except our roads.
Don’t get me started on pot holes.

Mate I totally agree with you. My daily is a b8 A4 S line diesel. Nothing special but it shares the same tyres size as the RS. It’s picked up loads of knocks on the wheels from potholes driving in and out of Birmingham for work. Need to get them refurbed as it’s bugging me loads.

[steve2003rs6]

Yes tell me about it. I am on my 3rd set of alloys.
And last year replaced the suspension.
Drivers behind me must think I am totally pi?sed.
From the erratic steering trying to dodge potholes.

[norwichphoto]

Progress report:
- 3 of the 4 tyres have arrived. The other is 'in the system' somewhere
- ordered filters and fluids, Allroad wiper arms and wiper blades. Hopefully will arrive soon.

Is there a way of checking TPMS battery without driving the car?


Edit: Car does have BOSE, or at least there is a BOSE sub in the RH side of the boot. Missing first aid kit though. I like my cars to be complete, so I'll trawl Ebay this evening.

[Mark-RS]

TPMS should pop up in the centre of the cluster for low pressures. Will be yellow for slightly low or red for very low. It will also stay flashing red if there are any failures or if they have been removed. Of course they may have been removed and coded out etc....

Some here have never known the cars came with them so I guess it's common for them to be removed and coded out of the system.

[Foxmeister]

So was TPMS a standard fit on the C5? I still have original wheels but not sure as ive never had any warnings etc, suppose it could have been coded out

[Human Joist]

I’ve had two of these and neither had tpms activated and I don’t know if they even had it fitted

[norwichphoto]

My colleague put his VW box of tricks onto the car and got a list of error codes. He's not too worried about any of them, and things most can be cleared once belts done. Most are probably related to the dead battery and the fact it was running on old fuel for a very short period of time.

Engine
- 000370 - bank 1 system too rich
- 001378 - system voltage too low
- 17535 - fuel trim bank 1 too rich
- 18010 terminal 30 voltage to low

Brakes
01119 Gear recognition signal

Airbag
00532 battery voltage

Dash
01325 TPM control module J502


First batch of parts have arrived from CarParts4Less, and the fourth tyre has decided to make an appearance.

[Shoppinit]

Clear them all and see what comes back.

TPMS is standard on RS6. You can check battery life with the Vagcom.

First aid kit is in the rear armrest IIRC.

[norwichphoto]

Clear them all and see what comes back.

TPMS is standard on RS6. You can check battery life with the Vagcom.

First aid kit is in the rear armrest IIRC.

That's what Tony my tame VAGman says. Clear them and see which return.
Armrest is empty.

[norwichphoto]

Car's now on axle stands and I've taken the wheels to local friendly tyre Shop and had tyres removed. I have a tyre machine in our workshop, but low profile tyres are a b*tch to get off, and I don't use it often enough to develop the knack. Conventional 60-70-80 profile tyres no problems. Wheel reconditoning people on standby and hopefully collecting the wheels next week to refurb, and to also do a spare set of Clio RS200 wheels for my wife.

Next I would like to remove each brake disc in turn, clean and examine and reassemble. There is some life left in these discs and pads. I'm going to give each corner a good clean whilst I'm in there.

Annoyingly I have spotted a broken coil spring (front RH), and there was something damp near RH rear suspension, but not investivated it yet. Wheelarches were caked in mud so knocked most of that off.

Old private plates sawn off with thin string. Old sticky pads removed and new plates fitted. At least a couple of things ticked off my job list.

I think it will be useful to source access to Elsawin or similar.

Original RS6 brochure arrived this morning as well

[Human Joist]

More pictures of the work done mate or it doesn’t count

[norwichphoto]

Where we're going we don't need wheels...

Wheel, ready for reconditioning.

Broken front coil spring :-/

Front left had a holed tyre, split was as wide as my hand.