S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

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S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by Carps » Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:29 am

I have just been looking at some 1999 S4 saloon pictures, and noticed that the battery and brake fluid reservoir are on opposite sides of the car to my avant. Everything else appears to be in the same place.
Seems odd that these items would be round the other way.
Both cars are right hand drive, and both are facelift models.
Here is a picture of the saloon
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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differenc

Post by ajsl » Sun Dec 14, 2003 5:50 pm

Hmm,

That is different, here's my UK spec mid year 2000 S4 saloon's engine bay:

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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differenc

Post by Golich » Mon Dec 15, 2003 5:26 pm

My 98 S4 Avant was as Ajsl's? [img]images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by SimonS4MTM » Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:24 pm

I have just been looking at some 1999 S4 saloon pictures, and noticed that the battery and brake fluid reservoir are on opposite sides of the car to my avant. Everything else appears to be in the same place.
Seems odd that these items would be round the other way.
Both cars are right hand drive, and both are facelift models.
Here is a picture of the saloon
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If you look at the wipers, this is a left hand drive car!
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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by Carps » Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:55 pm

But it's not a left hand drive car.
Here is the interior of the same vehicle - it belongs to Joules
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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by SimonS4MTM » Tue Dec 16, 2003 2:57 pm

But it's not a left hand drive car.
Here is the interior of the same vehicle - it belongs to Joules
Take a look at the wipers, they are the oposite way around
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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by Carps » Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:41 pm

I must admit, I thought you may be on to something there, but they are the same way around as my wipers. And that is the correct way around for a RHD car - the full sweep on the drivers side clears right to the edge.

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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by Nige_RS4 » Tue Dec 16, 2003 9:46 pm

Nope, I agree, that first pic is not the same as the others - it is surely LHD, that's why the brake servo is on that side of the car.

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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by Carps » Tue Dec 16, 2003 10:16 pm

That does seem to be the case. You can just about make out the wipers and they are the other way around.
Looks like Joules was not showing detail pictures of his own car [img]images/graemlins/033102bad_1_prv.gif[/img] I'm surprised he hasn't joined in to shed light on the mystery...

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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by jammyhl » Tue Dec 16, 2003 11:29 pm

Maybe the picture was pasted back to front... [img]images/graemlins/roundeyes.gif[/img]

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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by Dippy » Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:05 pm

Yeah - I heard that Audi made a special batch of "6V OBRUTIB" engine covers just in case that happened! [img]images/graemlins/jump3.gif[/img]
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Post by DavidT » Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:08 pm

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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by daddyjohal » Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:12 pm

Yeah - I heard that Audi made a special batch of "6V OBRUTIB" engine covers just in case that happened! [img]images/graemlins/jump3.gif[/img]

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Re: S4 Avant/Saloon differences, or year differences

Post by Morpheous » Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:17 pm

This is LHD with RHD conversion.

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