Looking at buying an audi for the DD status

[Steven]

Pretty bored with the mustang. Runs good, drives good, gets me around, no reason other then comfort to upgrade, which is viable in my eyes. They traded in a 01 A4 quattro at work. Solid black. Blacked out windows, lowered with nice wheels they are sex.

Anybody experienced with these cars?

 

[96_SVT_Cobra]

thats nice, does it have the 1.8t motor

 

[SRT Handz]

3 series>A4

 

[NERD]

Hanz has it right! I'm a BMW guy though. Audis are good cars but you better hope you don't have to do any maintenance on them. THey are a biotch. Hell even the spark plugs can be a PITA. My buddy bought an A4 for his wife and not one thing that's went wrong with it has been covered under warranty so he's been stuck with the bill and minimum of a weeks down time on every little thing. (Everything's a project with them.)

Audi's are kinda like Condillac's, you should only really own one if you can afford to have someone else do all the work.

 

[SRT Handz]

BMW's are so well designed its amazing.

The Hood clearance on my BMW is designed exactly to get a 1/2 inch drive torque wrench on every spark plug easy cake.

 

[Steven]

I'd love to have one. I love 3 series and A/S 4 series audi's. Both great cars. I just happened to see this one sitting here on the lot and it's pretty clean.

 

[SRT Handz]

Trust me, you are gonna hate your life trying to work on the Audi....

Ever work on a TT 300ZX? lol

 

[OnyxCobra]

I've read countless times that Audis, especially the older ones, are reliability nightmares. If you're planning on getting a car you're going to keep for a while I'd get something with a great name in reliability.

 

[NERD]

I've built a couple 2002's and my first BMW was a cherry '82 325i sport. 13 years old and it was still near perfect.

BMW's are so well designed its amazing.

The Hood clearance on my BMW is designed exactly to get a 1/2 inch drive torque wrench on every spark plug easy cake.

 

[vinniepearl]

meh, audi's aren't that bad to work on once you've done it a few times. It's the same with any car. If your gonna get an a4 get a 99.5 They are the best year and have a lot of mods available. Go to 121motorsports they have tons of mods. If I could pick an audi it would be a audi coupe quattro with a straight 5 mc2 running megasquirt. I was and still am obsessed with audi's. If you haven't seen this already you should probably check it out.

Audi 80 General Lee Drifting

It's an audi 4000 with a 20v straight 5. It's a 9 second street legal 4wd car.

 

[vinniepearl]

I've read countless times that Audis, especially the older ones, are reliability nightmares. If you're planning on getting a car you're going to keep for a while I'd get something with a great name in reliability.

as for this statement. I will completely disagree. My buddy has a 87 audi 5000s that is running 26psi on a stock block with a aftermarket head gasket and on the stock tranny. The quattro tranny's in those cars are bullet proof. The car is solid. It has twice as many miles than my 94 stang and still runs strong.

 

[JeremyAlan]

I've worked on N/A 300z's 84-87. They suck. Turbo'd one does too!

top gear says that the audi is better than an M3. :tongue3:

 

[SRT Handz]

as for this statement. I will completely disagree. My buddy has a 87 audi 5000s that is running 26psi on a stock block with a aftermarket head gasket. The car is solid. It has twice as many miles than my 94 stang and still runs strong.

..... Your definition of Reliable must be very different from mine.

Reliable to me means Drive from New York to Los Angeles & back on last notice and come back wanting more...

I've worked on N/A 300z's 84-87. They suck. Turbo'd one does too!

top gear says that the audi is better than an M3. :tongue3:

"Better" is a word nobody cares about in the world of DD Motoring....

 

[vinniepearl]

as for this statement. I will completely disagree. My buddy has a 87 audi 5000s that is running 26psi on a stock block with a aftermarket head gasket. The car is solid. It has twice as many miles than my 94 stang and still runs strong.

..... Your definition of Reliable must be very different from mine.

Reliable to me means Drive from New York to Los Angeles & back on last notice and come back wanting more...

I've never driven my mazda protege from new york to LA but I know that mazda protege's are extremely reliable, and I also know that if maintained so are the older audi's. Have you ever owned one? I have, and I've seen my friend beat the piss out of his for quite some time and it still runs strong. They come stock with forged internals, a extremely strong block, bullet proof tranny, and most of the lines are stainless steel. It's a tank AND RELIABLE.

 

[hottwheels04]

Yeah careful with audi's, A chic i kno got a great deal on a 2001 audi s4,but she was forced to sell it up because the upkeep will cost as much as the cars worth, her trans blew up in it, and when she got the bill she was dumbfounded, lets just say she didnt keep the car lol

 

[switch96]

I love Audi's!!!

 

[vinniepearl]

Yeah careful with audi's, A chic i kno got a great deal on a 2001 audi s4,but she was forced to sell it up because the upkeep will cost as much as the cars worth, her trans blew up in it, and when she got the bill she was dumbfounded, lets just say she didnt keep the car lol

Was it a quattro? Audi's can be expensive if you don't know where to get parts or if you don't know how to work on cars. Basically, if you can't work on the car yourself then audi's aren't for you.

 

[justinschmidt1]

I dont think they made s4swithout quattro

 

[atlanticblue98]

my friend once had a B6 A4 s-line 1.8t

we did a burnout contest, i layed down 20 feet of rubber then he layed down 20 feet of transmission parts.

he sold the broken Audi and now wants a mustang

i will admit though, the car was gorgeous

 

[vinniepearl]

I dont think they made s4swithout quattro

I didn't notice the s4 i misread it as a4. I'm not too familiar with the s4's. I just know the old tranny's are ridiculously strong, and there are a few 98-99 audi a4's that runs 10's on a stock tranny and continue to hold up