With a great deal of thought, have just traded my RS4.
All in all, the RS4 experience was good - best car I have owned.
Why sell?
Car was nearing 5 years, only a few months left on warranty and if I kept it would have needed tyres and brakes in the summer/autumn - cash I wouldn't have recouped. Plus the ease for the misses of having a car under warranty was a deciding factor (as I work abroad). And before you ask - no, didn't even consider renewing the Audi one as most things I have claimed for arent covered.
Will I come back to an Audi RS?? Most definately but not for the current RS5 or RS3. Also concern that the newer RSs are sort of watering down the gene pool - if you know what I mean.
So, have a few bits n bobs in the classified - no good to me, maybe others will want.
Farewell - its gone.
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svassileou
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just sold mine.
warranty due 1600 quid, tyres due, 1000, service due, 400, so 3k.
expected further spend over next 6 months was brakes front and rear, and possible clutch., another 3k, athrow in a few visits to the dealer who cant wont identify faults etc...had to go.
loads of things to go wrong with them, most of which audi are ill equiped to identify, and deal with, and more appallingly, they try and wriggle out of everything they can. its only when enough cars have the same problem, or someone kicks off to a high enough member of staff that they agree to get involved, or chip in...thats a lack of commitment i simply cant be doing with on a car they should be proud off.
that said, i've been carless for two weeks now, and am struggling to find a suitable replacement!
warranty due 1600 quid, tyres due, 1000, service due, 400, so 3k.
expected further spend over next 6 months was brakes front and rear, and possible clutch., another 3k, athrow in a few visits to the dealer who cant wont identify faults etc...had to go.
loads of things to go wrong with them, most of which audi are ill equiped to identify, and deal with, and more appallingly, they try and wriggle out of everything they can. its only when enough cars have the same problem, or someone kicks off to a high enough member of staff that they agree to get involved, or chip in...thats a lack of commitment i simply cant be doing with on a car they should be proud off.
that said, i've been carless for two weeks now, and am struggling to find a suitable replacement!
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neckarsulm
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I can't accept a financial argument against these cars as depreciation is so minimal compared to the alternativesjust sold mine.
warranty due 1600 quid, tyres due, 1000, service due, 400, so 3k.
expected further spend over next 6 months was brakes front and rear, and possible clutch., another 3k, athrow in a few visits to the dealer who cant wont identify faults etc...had to go.
loads of things to go wrong with them, most of which audi are ill equiped to identify, and deal with, and more appallingly, they try and wriggle out of everything they can. its only when enough cars have the same problem, or someone kicks off to a high enough member of staff that they agree to get involved, or chip in...thats a lack of commitment i simply cant be doing with on a car they should be proud off.
that said, i've been carless for two weeks now, and am struggling to find a suitable replacement!
All cars go wrong, from my experience the RS4 is reliable especially considering what it is
Unfortunately all main dealers are the same. Why should sytner in Nottingham care if you cross the road and buy a BMW, they own that too!
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i bought the car for 34k 12 months ago. i sold it for money as it stood for 26250. i could have got more for it, but i would have had to spend 3500 ( it needed taxing as well)neckarsulm wrote:I can't accept a financial argument against these cars as depreciation is so minimal compared to the alternativesjust sold mine.
warranty due 1600 quid, tyres due, 1000, service due, 400, so 3k.
expected further spend over next 6 months was brakes front and rear, and possible clutch., another 3k, athrow in a few visits to the dealer who cant wont identify faults etc...had to go.
loads of things to go wrong with them, most of which audi are ill equiped to identify, and deal with, and more appallingly, they try and wriggle out of everything they can. its only when enough cars have the same problem, or someone kicks off to a high enough member of staff that they agree to get involved, or chip in...thats a lack of commitment i simply cant be doing with on a car they should be proud off.
that said, i've been carless for two weeks now, and am struggling to find a suitable replacement!
All cars go wrong, from my experience the RS4 is reliable especially considering what it is
Unfortunately all main dealers are the same. Why should sytner in Nottingham care if you cross the road and buy a BMW, they own that too!
my previous rs4 lost 2k in the year i had that, so combined depreciation across the two cars wasless than 10k, which for 2 years warrantied rs4 ownership is for nowt.
however, to continue the ownership would have cost me rough and tough 6500 in consumables, plus another years depreciation on top, so say another 5k?
depreciation hasnt been an rs4 issue for the last 2 years, but there is a lot of them out there, so the next year or so could be interesting...
i loved both my cars, but my eyes have been wide open to the real cost of owning them since day one, and the cost is only going up, not down.
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neckarsulm
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there are fewer decent cars around now than ever, there is some overpriced tat at the mo that needs to go down
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