new daily driver-any experience?, 95 Audi s6 Options

[7391420]

I'm looking for a new and relatively cheap daily driver, found a clean low miles 95 audi s6, anyone ever had one? the car drives really well, and for around 10 grand, seems like a solid deal, any horror stories? This is a one owner, all records solid car, with all maintence performed. No visible leaks, and all origional paint.

thanks!

-Adam

[jgiroux67]

Well I drive a 98 2.8L quattro A4 and its a perfect daily driver. Any Audi mid 90s or newer or newer is a good car to have and even if you live in a snowy area they are great. An s6 would be a realy fun car I would think.

[mike_the_man]

I've got a 94 S4 (same thing) and I love it. Good in the winter, fast, great highway cruiser. Make sure the timing belt and water pump have been replaced fairly recently. I think it's supposed to be done every 60,000kms. Parts are pretty expensive, so keep that in mind. There are many many tuning options. Lots of different chips that are supposed to make a pretty big difference.

If you haven't already, check out

www.audiworld.com
www.s-cars.org/
www.urs4.com
www.audifans.com
www.sjmautotechnik.com/

Some good info on these sites. And lets see some pictures. We all love pictures.

Personally, I would reccomend it. If it's in good shape, you won't regret it.

[scruz914]

I also have a '98 2.8L A4. Perfect car for my daily Hwy17 (Santa Cruz Mtns.) commute. The quattro is great. We take the car to Tahoe often in the winter. Moves as good as our Suburban given enough clearance.

I bought it used at 40k+ miles and it just turned 100K. I have had no problems.

The 6 is much more roomy and you get performance upgrades with the S. Since you live in an area with winter snow and ice you may want to have two sets of tires. To take full advantage of the S in the dry you'll want performance tires. However you will not get very good traction with performance tires in the Winter.

-Jeff

[7391420]

Thanks guys,

I'll sent some photos if It looks good, I'm going to have a mechanic look it over and do a compression/leakdown on it

[Eric Taylor]

I drive a 93 2.8l audi 90. It's a pretty solid car, and an AWESOME highway car. It's really great to drive. However I have personally had a fair amount of problems with it. Mostly just little shit, but we did replace the entire cooling system last summer. The biggest problem is the dealer network. In Oregon there is only 1 dealer in the entire state. So whenever a dealer specific part breaks, or some audi special bull shit goes wrong its a whole day devoted to the car, and the hr rate is not cheap either at the dealer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif). So would I recomend an audi? Yes but be aware you could run into a lot of expensive dealer specific problems.
Eric

[thomasotten]

I think the Audi A4 Avants look very cool. I even think they look better than the sedans. I keep looking for a 98 Avant for my wife. Not too many around. I hear you have to change the timing belt way early on Audis or they will break. Like they say to do it at 90k, but many have broken before that.

[914werke]

The B4 and C5 car's are differnent animals but good breed all around.
I have a 95.5 S6 Avant and owned a 95 Sedan previously. I like the Avant better. The C5 cars are bigger (heavier) an seem to be built to last.
Tunning is to the moon! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif)
Do you want 400Hp from your inline 5 Turbo ... its available (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)
10K seems like a low price for one of these cars. Documented stockers or well careed for Modd'ed cars go for 15-21K. Avants carry a couple K premium.
The engine is the same as the one stuffed in the 80-90 Avant chassis and tweezed on by Porsche to produce the Euro only RS2.
Other than the Timing belt mentioned previously and requiring some quirky and expensive plugs, Electrical gremlins seem to be the biggest issue.
Remember these cars were LOADED with every amenity available at the time so thing go awry after time and use.
Chk it out by fellow S-Car nut and BUY IT if no seriousl problems are Id'd.

[mike_the_man]

Oh ya, forgot about the spark plugs. They sell for around $12 - $15 a piece, and you can only use the Bosch brand. Eveybody says the car runs like crap with any other plug in it.

Don't even think about going to the dealer for parts or service, unless it's a last resort. Every time I've called the dealer they've been around 3 times more expensive for parts than other places.

If the car checks out good, buy it. They're awesome.