new owner,not the best start with rs6

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new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by rs4wagon » Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:37 pm

Hi guys,im here for a while,couple of months ago i bought rs6 off here from guy called gedRS,poor ad but it was red and i always wanted misano,after few emials i decided to buy it,two owners (Ged since 2006) ,red,low millers in need of DRC sorting and due cambelt,so i had like 2-2.5K ready for this as theres always something to do as you all know,we agreed £5.5 and i went to look at it to newcastle upon tyne form london hoping i get back in my new rs6 down to london,when we get there after 7h drive i find out one of the tensioner in one bank is very loud hmmm quick call to my mate and he adviced me not to drive,ok i said i get recovery truck to get it straight to garage and do service etc,so this what we found when he removed cam cover,Enjoy pic

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and few nicer pictures

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so as you see looks like mrGed forgot to change the oil,turbo are also fooked.The wosrt thing in this sroty is i decided to rebuild it :bash:

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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by RSKiwi » Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:06 am

Wow.....just wow..

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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by Shoppinit » Fri Sep 21, 2018 3:51 am

Holy <beep>. :shock:
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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by Jayjay101 » Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:18 am

That’s shocking!but good on you sorting it outword to the wise get the gearbox refurbished while the engines out of you can


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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by Mark-RS » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:18 am

How the hell did it get like that ? Never seen that sort of thing on that scale before !

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Post by bam_bam » Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:58 pm

Is it just me that's thinking, that engine will never be the same again?!
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Post by ahoooga » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:32 pm

Kin ell !

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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by V!per » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:46 pm

HOllY SH...TTTT
Good luck getting it sorted.
Mine is running fine now - after finding a nice RS6+ engine.

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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by chunky79 » Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:04 pm

Hasn't this already been posted?
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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by bam_bam » Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:11 pm

chunky79 wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:04 pm
Hasn't this already been posted?
Yeah those pictures look familiar...
No matter where you go, there you are.

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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by rs4wagon » Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:40 pm

V!per wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:46 pm
HOllY SH...TTTT
Good luck getting it sorted.
Mine is running fine now - after finding a nice RS6+ engine.

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bam_bam wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:11 pm
chunky79 wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:04 pm
Hasn't this already been posted?
Yeah those pictures look familiar...
I did post some pic in the other topic,i think it was about oil for rs6
bam_bam wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:58 pm
Is it just me that's thinking, that engine will never be the same again?!
yeah i hope so mate haha it will be much better i belive,crank,pistons,block all mint :beerchug: car was driving fine,underpowered as it was in limp mode,but no sign its so bad
Mark-RS wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:18 am
How the hell did it get like that ? Never seen that sort of thing on that scale before !
Mr Ged thought long life oils change is every 10 years or 100K miles :assflash:
Jayjay101 wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:18 am
That’s shocking!but good on you sorting it outImageword to the wise get the gearbox refurbished while the engines out of you can


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no fooking way im going to put ZF in this car after engine will cost me small fortune!!go big or go home,manual mode :rocker: but box was perfect


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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by Gripper1 » Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:49 pm

I wonder how long you need to go without an oil change to get it in that state?

I used to really push my luck with old runabouts that I ran into the ground, and they were nowhere near the state of that.

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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by rs4wagon » Fri Sep 21, 2018 9:15 pm

i have no idea mate,i wont be suprised if he done any oil change,prob jsut top it up over the years!

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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by Mɐʇʇ » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:27 pm

There's no excuse really is there. Certainly 10k wouldn't do it. I don't even think 20k would...maybe 30K?
When I had the cam covers off mine on 80K, there was just the slightest discolouration of the cast ali, other than that looked pretty spotless. And it had always been done on 10K intervals before I owned it. I then did 3x back to back changes to flush it all out and it gets changed annually now, which is about 3-4K.
Gripper1 wrote:
Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:49 pm
I wonder how long you need to go without an oil change to get it in that state?

I used to really push my luck with old runabouts that I ran into the ground, and they were nowhere near the state of that.
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Re: new owner,not the best start with rs6

Post by simonpoulton » Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:51 am

Not quite the same performance machine as the RS6, but my sister's old 2003 1.2 Clio didn't have an oil change until it came to me. I think it went from 40k to 106k and looked like this, and I suspect the previous owner ragged the hell out of it (had a bad boy exhaust on it). I took the cylinder hear off, soaked for a couple of days in some good parts cleaner and came out spotless. Flushed the engine through with some ECP flushing oil, two filter changes and put back together. Still running to this day.
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