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My car is with Audi at the moment. They have told me the spark plugs need changed at 20 000, as it is the PE edition. Is this correct? Cost £429!

Yup. Audi UK confirm. Slightly surprised.

Service??

It went in for its first service, then told as it was close to 20000, the spark plugs needed replaced.


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Why would the plugs on a PE need replacing when those on a standard car don't? Can the over-boost make that much of a difference to the life of the plugs?

No idea.


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Taking the p1ss

The PE uses different spark plugs to the non PE. Also all RS6 suffer from high misfires although most of the time it goes unnoticed. I thought Audi change the spark plugs as a cure. I assumed they were rolling out the PE plugs to the non-PEs becuase of this but maybe it's not the case, maybe they are changing PE plugs to a different type too. When MRC tune this engine they change the spark plugs to a different type.

They still only £15 a plug!


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DrB wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:06 pm

They still only £15 a plug!


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Is your point that they are charging a lot for labour? I assumed they were hard to get to and needed a lot of other bits moved to get access. I don't recall seeing the ingition coils on the top of the engine like you can on other Audi V8s.

Yes. Will we had a look at the engine, and they appear to be pretty accessible. On the top like you would expect on a V8.


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However I'm not a mechanic.


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DrB wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:12 pm

Yes. Will we had a look at the engine, and they appear to be pretty accessible. On the top like you would expect on a V8.


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Ah OK, maybe I've just not noticed them due to the plastic engine cover.

I'd be tempted to ask them to do the service and take it to a decent indie for the plugs, as with all consumables you can save yourself an awful lot of money without affecting your warranty as long as the parts are OEM.

I was at unit 20 yesterday and he said he would recommend changing plugs on all Rs6's at 20k miles. He also said he would never leave these cars on a long life service, 8-10k miles for oil change.