RE: Shed of the Week

[predding]

Great car- like the man said how do I find the advert. Audi 5cyl engine is a classic esp if oil changed regularly. This car was years ahead of its time when launched in in 1983.

[derestrictor]

Absolutely superb car and yup, totally biased since I has one in the late 80s.

At the time, it felt about 20 years ahead of almost anything else: construction, materials, performance (at a time when 120 was about your lot for Ford and Vauxhall rep mobiles) and the slickest gearchange I can recall.

I remember cruising at an outrageous lick across the A69 without lifting (in the days just before we all became marauding psychopaths) and feeling like some pilot in a small jet.

Not poor.

[ASBO]

Brilliant car

My old man had one when was but just a bairn. Will always rember the time it sailed past 1.2 leptons seemingly without trying with me giggling like a little girl in the passenger seat. Those were the days when moustaches were cool and my Dad sported a belter!

[Ahonen]

pSyCoSiS said:

and the six-cylinder engines will out-perform the audi five-pots...

Depends on the versions you're comparing, obviously. The 140PS variant is a very underrated motor, as is the 175PS 20v.

The 5-pot will outlast the 2.0 and 2.3 6s though.

[LK_V6]

Tony427 said:

In the mid 90's I had a 100 Turbo ( a bit tweaked I later found out) that in two years went from 8k to 168k on the odometer and never let me down.
Best production car I ever had, and after selling it for peanuts at 168k I saw it on a forecourt, polished up nicely, with just 74k on the clock.............
The thing was a complete beast, and even had its own underbonnet cooling fan for the engine and turbo ( like a big hairdryer) blowing cooling air over the metal bits.

160k miles in 2 years?....did you even have time to go to the toilet, eat and sleep? Secondly, don't all cars have a cooling fan under the bonnet...even a Fiat Panda has one...how else will the engine stay cool in traffic?

[alex_123_fra]

Superb!

This and the audi 80 are very reliable cars. My uncle still has his 1.6 ltr audi 80 from 1989 and treats it like absolute garbage. It has never ever broken down and has hardly needed a part replaced in servicing at over 100k miles. No hint of rust anywhere.

When driving it, it still feels as tight as my one-year old RS4 and the gearchange is sublime!

[Robatr0n]

Ahonen said:

pSyCoSiS said:

and the six-cylinder engines will out-perform the audi five-pots...

Depends on the versions you're comparing, obviously. The 140PS variant is a very underrated motor, as is the 175PS 20v.

The 5-pot will outlast the 2.0 and 2.3 6s though.

They didn't make a 2.3 6 cylinder...did they?

[Ahonen]

Robatr0n said:

Ahonen said:

pSyCoSiS said:

and the six-cylinder engines will out-perform the audi five-pots...

Depends on the versions you're comparing, obviously. The 140PS variant is a very underrated motor, as is the 175PS 20v.

The 5-pot will outlast the 2.0 and 2.3 6s though.

They didn't make a 2.3 6 cylinder...did they?

I thought there was a 2.3 323i in both e21 and early e30 form many years ago. The e30 version was made until about 1985, if I remember rightly.

Later 323s were 2.5s, I think.

[s2driveruk]

The 5 cylinder audi's are hewn from granite, the engines are well proven and swallow big miles (easy 300K+ without issue if well maintained...)

As for the 100, great car, looks aged asthetically but probably very reliable, comfortable, fairly torquey and certainly no shed IMO - the sound of a 10v 5 pot is worth the price alone.

[sprinter885]

Exactly as "S2D.." above. I understood engines easily were untroubled by 1/4 mill'n miles or so. Pal of mine had saloon & estate (both black !)& ran faultlessly apart from routine brake stuff etc.

think I have a Haynes manual somewhere for the "100" if anybody's interested....