New member, Newb Owner

A6 All/ S6 All
#1

Hello from UK,

I’m glad I found this forum it seems a friendly community. I wanted to find somewhere to ask a few questions about my car without getting my head ripped off for not being a hardcore petrol-head ;D

I purchased my S6 about a month ago. It has quite an interesting history…

One female owner. Bought from new by an extremely famous actor for an extremely famous woman actor/model - I don’t want to say any more than that. I wondered if this adds anything to the value or not :stuck_out_tongue:

It seems to be well looked after. It’s now done 87k, full Audi stamps from new with long life service: stamps at 18k, 34k, 53k, 72k, 82k up to mid 2015.

Plugs changed at 72k. Oil Change 82k.

Interior is immaculate except for missing rear ciggy lighter thing and a scuff on airbag cover decal which I cannot seem to purchase on its own (see pic)?

Exterior, the only cosmetic issue is very minor curb of back wheel. And the rear Textar brake calipers which look a bit ‘rough’ - are they meant to look like that bad and I wondered why are the originals are not on there.
On the front grill, why is there grey plastic strip below the plate. I can’t see this on other S6’s.

MOT (long) just says: Suspension arm rubber bush deteriorated but not resulting in excessive movement for nearside & offside front upper (forward).

The engine sounds great and it goes great. No warning lights or issues as of yet. Brakes feel awesome.

My main questions are:

Is there anything I need to do. Should I take it into my local Audi dealer for an interim service (it could be £235 well spent) for a once over. And do I have to worry about this dreaded carbon build up thing. I read its over hyped and due to owners crawling around city at 15mph, but if you drive it hard regularly its not an issue, the V10 is bulletproof etc with good servicing, fingers-X it certainly sounds good.

I can’t help the feeling when I’m driving that although everything is fine, I’m waiting for engine to explode or the timing chain to fly out through the bonnet when giving it the beans :o

  • mainly due to a few doom-monger Audi haters I guess.

(I have ordered some K&N air filters which are on the way.)

Many thanks in advance.


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#2

Welcome, i would bring it to your local Audi dealer/specialist, and get a diagnostic ran on it and see if there is any error codes stored.

As for the rear calipers, that textar logo is the pads, so last service they were probably fitted. Since its a UK car expect the usual rust and maybe thats the only problem with the calipers.

Your MOT warning sounds like the bushings on the front control arms are on the way out, normal wear and tear in this area you can get a full Meyle HD front control arm kit fitted which should restore your handling back to how it was when it left the factory.

I would love to get a new airbag cover as mine also has scuff on it. Welcome to the gang, mostly US guys on here, im in Ireland so a bit closer!

So you brought it from Katie Price? :slight_smile:

#3

Hi there,

I’m surprised so many US guys are here with an Audi, I always had the impression European cars aren’t of much interest in the USA, and it’s all about big Fords and Chryslers :wink:

Thanks for the info on arms. I think Audi service is must.

This care is so refined. I like Mr Minacious:
http://audirevolution.net/forum/index.php?topic=4199.0 tint which I am considering, other than that it would be nice to sex these brakes up a bit - yellow would look good :o

Also, do I have to replace whole exhaust to fill out out more at rear - stock looks a bit weedy.

Was not Katie Price. Hugh Gr@nt original purchaser, bought it for Mrs Hurley as named driver.

#4

I was going to say if the person you bought the car from is famous in the UK most people in the usa wont probably know them. But in the case of your car I think I know who that is.

As for the car. The carbon is an issue and you really are going to want to have that checked. At the same time you can do what has turned out to be a great power and logevity mod helping to keep the car intake temps down. Thats the JHM intake spacers. They really help drop the under hood and intake temps. Thats a big help in keeping the car healthy and happy.

Again back to the carbon. Carbon will take out your injectors PCV system and cause possible cylinder damage if left long enough that chunks of it fall off. Its not something you need to do every year but at 85k its about time to take a look. While your looking make sure to inspect the intake manifold as carbon and just time tend to destroy the intake runner arm that controls the flaps.

These motors are very strong and if well maintained you should have a long happy relationship with the car.

#5

Hey, it’s the twin to my car, well, until I change the grille. Welcome!

Here in Southern California Audis are like ants; the damn things are everywhere. :smiley:

#6

Oh, and the grey box on your grille is for the Adaptive Cruise Control.

#7

Thanks. I’m an IT guy, not a car guy unfortunately :frowning: so I’m in the hands of others when it comes to this level of knowledge.

It’s a bit of a shame that even though the cars been very well maintained there’s this lurking issue and one canlt just enjoy it.

What’s my remit, when I take this to Audi for a service do I need to specifically ask them to check for carbon build up, and is that going to be full on beast of a job or will they know quite easily. Presumably this is not something you want done by your local garage no matter how experienced, I guess they don’t see than many V10’s. There is one local mechanic I know who said he recently serviced a Toureg V10 and jokingly said a full oil change was about £150 and I should be prepared so I could give him a nod.

You know how it is, one forum says one thing, one says another - you read the Audi guys are just full of newbs mechs doing the service who will be clueless with a V10 (I find that hard to believe) anyway ::slight_smile:

#8

Welcome to the forum! There are some very knowledgeable and experienced people here. You’ll know who they are just keep reading…

#9

You might have better luck with some local shops, than dealerships. In my experience, yes it is difficult to find a mechanic that has ever seen (let alone worked on) an Audi V10. But it’s pretty similar to the 4.2 V8, at least. For the carbon cleaning, you’re looking at about 6-8 hours of labor, and I would definitely make sure that whoever does it has done it before, don’t let them use your car as a learning tool. Plenty of other german cars have the same issue, so many local german car mechanics should know what they’re doing. It’s good to have someone who knows Audi’s do it, because they’ll know where to look for other problems, such as the manifold flaps being broken. Also, during a carbon cleaning is a perfect opportunity to install JHM intake spacers, since the labor will essentially be free at that point. You can read about the benefits of those in many other threads here.