2004 Audi RS6 Plus C5 Avant - South Africa

[MeTsU]

Sell me your interior

Haha, could be a little tricky seeing I'm a good few miles away from you.

That interior! In the words of R Kelly; 'My minds telling me no but my body...'

One thing that bugs me though, could the dealer not have taken the pictures in the light instead of the shadows. The 2nd picture is well hard to make out.

Enjoy!

Yeah, it ALWAYS grates me that they do this, but obviously they don't want to full extend of the imperfections to show. Thankfully for my mate who lives in the region, I've got a good idea of the condition and am prepared to tie up my OCD for a while. I think the risk is worth the reward for something that is this rare in South Africa.

[benh999]

Sell me your interior

Haha, could be a little tricky seeing I'm a good few miles away from you.

That interior! In the words of R Kelly; 'My minds telling me no but my body...'

One thing that bugs me though, could the dealer not have taken the pictures in the light instead of the shadows. The 2nd picture is well hard to make out.

Enjoy!

Yeah, it ALWAYS grates me that they do this, but obviously they don't want to full extend of the imperfections to show. Thankfully for my mate who lives in the region, I've got a good idea of the condition and am prepared to tie up my OCD for a while. I think the risk is worth the reward for something that is this rare in South Africa.

Just give me the shipping quote

[MeTsU]

Offer to Purchase has been signed.

[JonRS246plus]

Offer to Purchase has been signed.

Nice one!

Mine is off having the (bumper off job) parking sensors fixed....another job you can look forward to!

[MeTsU]

Offer to Purchase has been signed.

So money transferred last night as I have been away on business. Looks like I should be receiving the RS some time next week!

[MeTsU]

So, a quick update. I wanted the Dealer to take a look at the headlights for me, as well as see if they could get the 2 front wheel arch liners in the deal for me. They got the wrong arch liners sadly, but I found a pair locally in South Africa for 40GBP. I also found 10 of the 12 Carbon Fibre bits for around 165GBP. So just waiting for feedback on the headlights and then will arrange the car carrier to bring the car down to me at the end of the week I hope.

I'm considering getting a personalised plate - sadly the region I live in is locked to 3x numbers, then 3x letters, EC. So an example could be the cars build number, 283 RSX EC. Or 125 SIX EC (1 and 2 being the R, 5 being the S). Doubt sadly anyone would pick that up here.

Any suggestions?

[MeTsU]

Ok, so it looks like I will be receiving the car this week, finally!

My plan is to take care of the motor oil and filter, gearbox oil and filter. I think I will only order the gearbox filter once I have the original in my hands - I am worried to receive the wrong part, although ZF in South African confirmed they could supply the correct one.

Do you guys ever change Diff oils?

[Shoppinit]

It's a good idea to do it. Not difficult.

[MeTsU]

It's a good idea to do it. Not difficult.

I didn't notice a DIY in the "special threads area" Any specific ATF you guys are using - Redline 75W/90 for e.g?

Ah... I found this:

All of the drain & fill plugs take a Hex head socket (Allen head). Front Diff takes 1.30ltr, the center is .85ltr, and the rear is the one I'm uncertain about but I believe it is about 2ltrs so 3ltrs total should be enough to do all 3 but if you have 4 on hand your guaranteed to have enough. The front Diff has no drain plug, just a fill plug so the fluid has to be evacuated from the fill plug which is just to the front side (about 2 to 3 O'clock position) on the right side front axle flange. The center diff has a drain plug on the bottom rear of the transmission tailshaft housing about 10cm or so from the axle and the fill plug is on the right side about 1/3rd of the way up the housing above the drain plug. The rear Diff has the drain plug on the bottom and the fill plug I can't remember if it is on the right side (pretty sure), or on the left side. You do have to remove the sheet metal splash pans around the rear diff to get at the fill plug. The fluid is definitely 75w90. The exact fluid recommendation is called: Burmah SAF-AG4 for the front & rear and Burmah Carbon Mod. for the Center Diff (or the SAF-AG4 w/.034 of friction modifier STURACO FM 1992 added). A high quality 75w90 will do the trick although I am partial to Redline as their oils all seem to exceed all oil specs by more than other synthetics. I don't know why they specify the Burmah w/friction modifier for a Torsen diff (knows as a Parallel Axis Torsen) but they do. I have run a couple of Torsen Audi's on regular 75w90 for years (Redline 75w90) with no problems but the closest Redline for the Center Diff would be 75w90NS but when I bought my car in '05 I changed all Diffs with regular Redline, it wasn't until I just reinstalled my engine/tranny last month and refilled the tranny did I actually use the 75w90NS in the center diff and can't tell the difference. And yes all Diff fluids are listed as "fill for life" and only spec'd to be checked & topped off per the Shop manual (B.S. is what most people say). Just like the fill for life transmission fluid when even the manufacturer (ZF) specs a fluid change interval every 60K~80K in general for the 5HP-24A tranny whereas I feel the tranny not being beefed up we know enough for the RS6 can use oil changes more frequently so I do my ATF every 40K & Diffs about the same although the Diffs are probably fine going a little longer.

[Shoppinit]

I always use OE for diff lubricants. Expensive but there's not much to buy.

[MeTsU]

I always use OE for diff lubricants. Expensive but there's not much to buy.

Ok cool.

[MeTsU]

And so, yesterday, Friday 2nd of March 2018, I got to collect my RS6+ from the car carrier depot.



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[Shoppinit]

Awesome. You driven it yet?

[Eddie555]

Nice. But I’ve got to ask. WTF is that thing attached to the beach buggy?

[bam_bam]

Board rack.