Thinking about getting a B8 S4 with the supercharged V6. What should I know?
it's a nice car, fairly reliable. get the sport diff and get the pre-facelift for its hydraulic steering. then pulley and tune it into the 11s and have fun.
>>28799147You could have chosen much worse.The V6 is somewhat notiorious for coolant leaks, some of the plastic components in the coolant circuit are bitch weak, and high mileage bros tend to sell them instead of repairing since working on the V6 in that isn't fun – nootice where the front strut towers are. The engine bay is 20 years ahead of its time with how cramped it is, but that's just how audi be.Felt liners make the fenders rust in places where they use road salt, B9 went to hard plastic liners for that.For maintenance cost, you could look at the maximum performance trim of the I4 and win out on maintenance costs even despite the turbocharger, since when anything needs to be done on the V6, it has to go out of the car and audi insists on the bumper coming off. Haven't witnessed a timing job on the V6 FSI, but I a buddy had the V6 TDI's chain done, and his was a quattro, so when audi said the engine has to come out, and the V6 TDI goes out downward through the bottom, it meant removing the front diff and subframe, which on the quattro meant taking the center diff and transmission off as well, which meant also taking the rear diff off, because the germniggers put the chain at the transmission side of the engine and said the chain is a lifetime component, although it commonly rips at 200,000 km and nobody in the know will buy a high-mileage one off of you without the timing job done. So check where the V6 FSI has its chain and whether it was already replaced, because a timing job on the V6 TDI costs about 4000 Euros vs 600 Euros on the 2.0 TFSI
>>28799147>>28799393I think he’s right but it’s generally pretty reliable. $4k is a lot but it’s also not considering a B9 is going to be that much more anyway. It’s easy to to tune to RS5 levels but it’s also not an RS5 in most ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15aT-wxMkJAImagine this with a supercharger
>>28799147Replace the PCV, water pump, thermostat, and have the valves carbon-cleaned all at once immediately. You'll thank me and yourself later. It's fairly reliable besides these 4 items being the car's Achilles heel, but once they're taken care of it should be pretty stout for a while. It will still do 10+ year-old German car things that will be expensive and annoying, but it's not bad as long as you're ready for it. Sport diff is also a must-have as other anons mentioned.
>>28799152>fairy reliableLOL
>>28799393You really make it sound like it would be better to get a 2.0 with bolt-ons and a tune
>>28800055I'm just talking out my ass here, but as far as VAG engines go, I'd stick with the inlines, maybe a VR6, and if you're feeling spicy find something with a V10 or bigger.That's just based on vibes though.
>>28800078All on the brink of implosion at any minute
>>28800082That's just VAG in general
>>28799916https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHYpu0Gl1c
>>28800055you can get a B8 2.0t into the 12s easily with a cheap bolt on turbo, but those engines all have bad piston rings from the factory and will need to be rebuilt or replaced by 100k miles. at that point you'll be burning a quart of oil every 200 miles. the engines are pretty cheap and easy to work on but just know what you're getting yourself into. the S4 engines will last much longer.
>>28799147You're going to be buying it just in time to do very expensive long term maintenance that the people you're buying it from are very aware of and trying to offload it to you.
