160,000 Mile RS6

[Shoppinit]

Noice.

[alangjones]

Anyone still running SK03 CWC Avus Silver RS6

[rs4wagon]

Anyone still running SK03 CWC Avus Silver RS6

dont think so,off sorn'd since 2017

[IchBautAuto]

Other than the few well known weak spots, can't see what the amazement is to have an RS6 at 256,000 km. My RS4 has 280,000 up on original turbos, makes 450+ hp and has been faultless in my 7 years of ownership. It gets driven, doesn't just sit around. Smaller higher stressed motor etc. These should do it, at least I'm hoping so as mine is the DD.

[alangjones]

Hi rs4wagon
Thanks, I was the second owner and at 175000 miles but with no problems, P/E it for my present S6 Avant in 2015. How can anyone want to settle for EV's after 2030. A disgrace, one gets a V8 for the GRUMBLE, or HOWL on punting. Glad I will be worm food by then. Always had V8's since 1973 and loved every minute. The best was in Italy going tunnel, bridge, tunnel, bridge for miles on an Autostrada, dropping to 3 on entering, punting hard and drooling at the bellow bouncing off the walls with the top down as well. Happy daze !!

[Capt Ric]

My 160,000 miles is now 227,000. IS THERE A HIGHER MILEAGE RS PRODUCT ON THE ROAD?
Stll going strong hardly uses any oil timing chain tensoners broke at 180,000 but did not need an engine rebuild just replaced some valves, g/box reconditioned and turbos at the same time.

Very impressive and makes a pleasant change to hear a good news story.

[alangjones]

Hi Mud Plugger
I guess you changed the belts every 40000 miles. I always did mine at 35000, never wanted to take a chance. So 174000 miles in10.5 years, and only ever had an Audi dealer service the car. Had a brilliant P/E value from the Audi Dealer.

[mudplugger]

Yes serviced exactly when it should have been. In fact i added up the bills and spent over £60k in 16 years which sounds a lot of money but at £3500 a year is not so bad, Chipped at 40,000 miles to 530bhp but this made no differnece to reliability. Use Mobil 1 throughtout ist life and i think this helped. Will do that same in my new 2020 Carbon Black model which is all buttons and digital. kike going from a Nokia 6310 to an iphone!

[Mɐʇʇ]

Both good in their own ways. I explicitly don't want newer Audi's - I think the C5 platform was good. Later versions I think the bling, and appearance of quality, increased, but underneath I think there's cost cutting all over the place. Just MVHO.

Like going from a Nokia 6310 to an iphone!

[IchBautAuto]

Agreed. The B5 / C5 platform is about the end of the road for me with the balance of quality, maintainability and enjoyability.

[Gregstv]

The biggest problem I am finding on my C5 is the poor workmanship done by previous owners. Otherwise love the thing.

[IchBautAuto]

So sad and so true. Both my RS cars have had some really atrocious work / parts found when I started to do the maintenance. So odd when compared with, for example, my C5 allroad which was totally factory and totally complete with all the right bits. Makes me think that there is (here at least) a subset of RS owners who are totally out of their depth mechanically / electrically but aren't man enough to own up.

[Shoppinit]

One of my favourites that I saw on a member's car was the MAF wiring that was twisted together with chewing gum wrapper to act as shielding.

[Mɐʇʇ]

I was lucky. The lad that owned my car before me - he paid quite a chunk of money for a "well known VW specialist" who, amongst other things, charged him 100 quid for putting some sticky back mirror plastic on one of the wing mirrors over the cracked glass. But I think he worked out pretty quickly that he didn't have the £ appetite for the work it needed so rather than bodge, he moved it on.

[IchBautAuto]

Over the last year I've mentioned the worst of the issues on here with my RS6. totally shot DRC, under dash wiring, cracked airbox, missing all screws from the ECU lid etc, etc. On the plus side otherwise a great car. My RS4 had an even bigger list despite having been fettled by a local expert. The upper arm / upright bolt (same as RS6) is 10mm dia, except one of mine was 9.5mm. Visually obvious before using a vernier. Box load of missing bolts / screws from important places. The list was comprehensive.

Is it they are less reliable therefore more is torn apart, or the owners are more inclined to attempt to fix them or indeed that they are attracting a less well heeled breed of owners who can't keep them in the manner they were meant to be kept. All I know is that it can be a bloody headache for the owner with anal attitudes who finally takes delivery.