klauster wrote:I think my RS4 is still the best looking vs price vs performance car there is on the road, otherwise I would have changed it by now! I love it, and an ancient Porsche, which looks dated in my opinion wouldn't make it on my list in a million years, even it it is fractionally faster.... simple as that!
+10klauster wrote:I think my RS4 is still the best looking vs price vs performance car there is on the road, otherwise I would have changed it by now! I love it, and an ancient Porsche, which looks dated in my opinion wouldn't make it on my list in a million years, even it it is fractionally faster.... simple as that!
Well said that man.Dom81 wrote:So on a par with the Recaros thenRS_Y4Z wrote:The seats are actually comfier on a long drive compared to the Buckets in my RS4
So much talk by a handful of people - the most alarmist of which (by a country mile) has had no issues himself...RS_Y4Z wrote:I may not have had issues with carbon build up on the RS4 but thats maybe because it only had 15K when I purchased it and 21K when I part ex'd it! But theres so much talk of it on this forum it was enough to put me off the car!
Most of us aren't, and don'tRS_Y4Z wrote:Space isnt an issue for me, I'm single and live with my parents
As is clear by your constructive title postRS_Y4Z wrote:I didnt mean to start a big fight here
Of a cab with MFSW - not exactly the performance modelRS_Y4Z wrote:but in my experience
You're obviously not happy, and each to their own. Good luck with your new toy, but quite honestly, calling the old one a piece of SH*T (when it just didn't float your boat) makes you a bit of a TW*T
Turbos & Gt2/3 use a different engine the standard 996/997 water cooled derived from the GT1 engine. So the RMS issue doesn't apply.stoddie wrote:i had a 2004 C4S and trust me there are issues with all 996 engines and rear main seals. I had mine replaced under warrenty with one which i believe porsche have revised the design of.
Some cars dont leak at all, some leak 500 miles after having the seal changed - however again the stories are massively exagerated on the forums and the possiblity of engine failure with a slightly leaking RMS are few and far between.
Nov'07 Rs4 Avant (Misano) (sold April 14),Who by? Audi TT owners?Also its considered very bad form to call the 996/997 turbos TTs
Bladerider wrote:RMS failure is not possible on GT1 engine Porsches - GT3, Turbo and GT2
IMS failure is a totally different thing and is possible on any of the engines used including the GT1 !!
Turbos do understeer, as do almost all 911's when you start to build speed, it one of the side effects of having so little weight over the front, the solution is to go in with a trailing brake or a touch of left foot when really pushing on, you can alter the geometry (at least in a GT3) to a more aggressive setup to dial this out, but it then becomes very tail happy !!
the snap oversteer is another issue seperately and I never found it that big a problem except on very uneven minor roads when doing speeds that would land you in jail anyway !! I have spent an entire day lapping Snetterton on full ock drifting the whole circuit - and as I compete at the highest level in drifting Im not talking about a little powerslide after the apex either, full bore lockstop entries into sears or riches !!!
I also think if Arthur wants to prove his point (whatever that may be seing as we are in the UK) about car prices in the US then perhaps he might want to consider if a car that is 8 years older but only $1500 less is really such a strong card to play, I think if you asked the man in the street "Would you rather have an Audi or a Porsche" not many would be saying Vorsprung Durch Technik on the way home !!
Having said ALL of that, its just a load of bollox. Pardon my french. Who cares what he's gone and bought, I bought an RS4 as my new works van, to replace my 535d Msport Touring that went before it, and my Allroad Limited before that - its just a car for a job, its not the second coming, its not the best car in the world, its not even the best car in its class, its simply the one we all like to tool around in.
be happy in that and the fact we have such nice cars to play with in the first place and then maybe some of the bickering can stop - this place seems to have a real overblown sense of its own importance judging by what ive read, lets not go the way the GTR forum has recently and vanish up our own arses hey ??
Cheers,
James.
Agree totally James, as would most people here - I just don't think it's a "piece of SH*T"Bladerider wrote:its just a car for a job, its not the second coming, its not the best car in the world, its not even the best car in its class, its simply the one we all like to tool around in
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