500 Euro Audi A6 C6 Winter Shed
Discussion
...ok so I'll admit, the term shed is probably going to be a little harsh!
First, some back story!
If you've seen my previous threads (which I'm awful at keeping updated) or see my profile, you'll note that I'm rather fond of Japanese tat. Up until a couple years ago, I'd always had company cars that I could daily year round and thus not have to worry about driving any of my own cars in poor weather or adding lots of mileage onto them. Only bringing cars out in nice weather or being worried about driving them daily is a questionable and touchy subject for some, but what can I say, I like to keep my cars nice
In recent years, I decided to go self employed (best decision ever btw) and also re-join my Father in the family business, which means I've been dailying (during the summer) one of my own cars;
Usually this, my 450hp T5 Manual.
...and then purchase a banger for the winter months. It's proved me well over the years, and usually results in me having a few months of stress free motoring with a car that I truly do not care about - Parking dings, bumps, scratches, all become a thing of the past, and I usually end up either selling the car on after winter (providing I think it's genuinely good enough to serve a purpose for the next owner) or scrap it. As winters now here, that's where this car comes in...
It's an incredibly dull 2006 Audi A6, with a pretty basic spec and a CVT automatic adjoined to a wheazy 2.0 TFSI petrol, pumping out a whopping 170hp! It's perfect.
The reason I made this thread, is for the cars backstory...See the issue I have, is that I don't think I can bring myself to be so laid back with this cars treatment during its duties as future winter hack. Allow me to explain.
As well as being self employed in my own venture, I also work alongside my Father rebuilding automatic transmissions. About 7 or 8 months ago, a man has turned up to our workshop with the A6 seen above, complaining of gearbox issues. Now the CVT in these are actually relatively reliable, but do suffer with mechatronic issues, and that's unfortunately what this A6 had. We gave him two options, of either having the existing mechatronic unit rebuilt ( 800ish all in) or getting a brand new mechatronic unit from the dealer and have us fit/code it ( 2600ish all in). To our astonishment, he decided to go for a brand new unit! Once the part arrived, we done the requested work, the customer went away happy (his accountant wasn't) and we never heard anything since except for a 5 star Google review - which was nice!
Anyway, fast forward to a couple days ago, and I get a phonecall...
PO: "Hello is that NateWM?"
Me: "Hi, Yes - How can I help?"
PO: "I'm getting rid of the A6 as something's broken on it, and the dealers offered me 500 but they're going to scrap it, and I feel the cars worth saving rather than doing that. Would you like to buy it instead?"
Me: "I'll certainly have a look anyway ..what broke on it?"
PO: "Uhh....yeah maybe have a look first and find out..."
Me: "
"
So, I rock up, and I'm greeted with this properly mint interior;
Ok, let's check the side out;
Looking good....engine bay?
I don't get it what is bro.....holyyyyy fuuuu
....yeah something's definitely broken!
Me and the seller get chatting, and it turns out that this particular A6 was owned by his Father since it was new. The seller then inherited it, and in the last few months since having us replace the mechatronic unit, spent a further 7894.21 euro on other maintenance and servicing with the local Audi dealership
and the car only has 100k on the clock, with tax and test! Work consisted of;
1. 5 new continental tyres (including spare)
2. Full service, an assortment of gasket and seals.
3. Timing belt kit, water pump and all aux belts/pulleys
4. Discs and pads all around and all calipers rebuilt
5. New shockers all round and an assortment of arms, bushes, drop links etc.
6. New fuel pump
7. Random sensors etc
8. All wheel bearings replaced
9. Front O/S driveshaft
10. All engine mounts
...and to be honest, stacks more that I haven't even been through yet.
This car is incredibly clean. Bar one small ding on the drivers door that I can get PDR'd out, the bodywork is flawless and a good machine polish and ceramic coat will bring it back up to par. The interior is truly mint, showing minimal wear and still has the original medical kit etc, and as for the drive.....well I don't know because the rear upper control arm has snapped, but it drove nice before all the work was done when I last seen it
The owner is incredibly lucky the arm at the rear snapped whilst he was pulling into the driveway. I did have a conversation with him about fixing it for him so that he could continue driving it himself and get some value out of all the money he has spent on it lately, but he's had enough and wants me to take it, so I have!
The car is still on his driveway awaiting my recovery guy, and I'll then fit two new rear arms and it's winter daily duties can commence. Once home, it'll have a good polish and ceramic coat, and I've some odds and sods coming for it like mudflaps, cruise control retrofit kit, rubber mats and some stereo upgrades - Basically the essentials to make its daily duties more comfortable.
....now the question is, with its low mileage and history, do I drive it into the ground or show it some love?
Time will tell.
First, some back story!
If you've seen my previous threads (which I'm awful at keeping updated) or see my profile, you'll note that I'm rather fond of Japanese tat. Up until a couple years ago, I'd always had company cars that I could daily year round and thus not have to worry about driving any of my own cars in poor weather or adding lots of mileage onto them. Only bringing cars out in nice weather or being worried about driving them daily is a questionable and touchy subject for some, but what can I say, I like to keep my cars nice
In recent years, I decided to go self employed (best decision ever btw) and also re-join my Father in the family business, which means I've been dailying (during the summer) one of my own cars;
Usually this, my 450hp T5 Manual.
...and then purchase a banger for the winter months. It's proved me well over the years, and usually results in me having a few months of stress free motoring with a car that I truly do not care about - Parking dings, bumps, scratches, all become a thing of the past, and I usually end up either selling the car on after winter (providing I think it's genuinely good enough to serve a purpose for the next owner) or scrap it. As winters now here, that's where this car comes in...
It's an incredibly dull 2006 Audi A6, with a pretty basic spec and a CVT automatic adjoined to a wheazy 2.0 TFSI petrol, pumping out a whopping 170hp! It's perfect.
The reason I made this thread, is for the cars backstory...See the issue I have, is that I don't think I can bring myself to be so laid back with this cars treatment during its duties as future winter hack. Allow me to explain.
As well as being self employed in my own venture, I also work alongside my Father rebuilding automatic transmissions. About 7 or 8 months ago, a man has turned up to our workshop with the A6 seen above, complaining of gearbox issues. Now the CVT in these are actually relatively reliable, but do suffer with mechatronic issues, and that's unfortunately what this A6 had. We gave him two options, of either having the existing mechatronic unit rebuilt ( 800ish all in) or getting a brand new mechatronic unit from the dealer and have us fit/code it ( 2600ish all in). To our astonishment, he decided to go for a brand new unit! Once the part arrived, we done the requested work, the customer went away happy (his accountant wasn't) and we never heard anything since except for a 5 star Google review - which was nice!
Anyway, fast forward to a couple days ago, and I get a phonecall...
PO: "Hello is that NateWM?"
Me: "Hi, Yes - How can I help?"
PO: "I'm getting rid of the A6 as something's broken on it, and the dealers offered me 500 but they're going to scrap it, and I feel the cars worth saving rather than doing that. Would you like to buy it instead?"
Me: "I'll certainly have a look anyway ..what broke on it?"
PO: "Uhh....yeah maybe have a look first and find out..."
Me: "
"So, I rock up, and I'm greeted with this properly mint interior;
Ok, let's check the side out;
Looking good....engine bay?
I don't get it what is bro.....holyyyyy fuuuu
....yeah something's definitely broken!
Me and the seller get chatting, and it turns out that this particular A6 was owned by his Father since it was new. The seller then inherited it, and in the last few months since having us replace the mechatronic unit, spent a further 7894.21 euro on other maintenance and servicing with the local Audi dealership
and the car only has 100k on the clock, with tax and test! Work consisted of;1. 5 new continental tyres (including spare)
2. Full service, an assortment of gasket and seals.
3. Timing belt kit, water pump and all aux belts/pulleys
4. Discs and pads all around and all calipers rebuilt
5. New shockers all round and an assortment of arms, bushes, drop links etc.
6. New fuel pump
7. Random sensors etc
8. All wheel bearings replaced
9. Front O/S driveshaft
10. All engine mounts
...and to be honest, stacks more that I haven't even been through yet.
This car is incredibly clean. Bar one small ding on the drivers door that I can get PDR'd out, the bodywork is flawless and a good machine polish and ceramic coat will bring it back up to par. The interior is truly mint, showing minimal wear and still has the original medical kit etc, and as for the drive.....well I don't know because the rear upper control arm has snapped, but it drove nice before all the work was done when I last seen it
The owner is incredibly lucky the arm at the rear snapped whilst he was pulling into the driveway. I did have a conversation with him about fixing it for him so that he could continue driving it himself and get some value out of all the money he has spent on it lately, but he's had enough and wants me to take it, so I have!
The car is still on his driveway awaiting my recovery guy, and I'll then fit two new rear arms and it's winter daily duties can commence. Once home, it'll have a good polish and ceramic coat, and I've some odds and sods coming for it like mudflaps, cruise control retrofit kit, rubber mats and some stereo upgrades - Basically the essentials to make its daily duties more comfortable.
....now the question is, with its low mileage and history, do I drive it into the ground or show it some love?
Time will tell.
Edited by NateWM on Tuesday 11th November 14:42
keo said:
Looks a proper bargain!
I'm super happy with it to be honest! In Ireland it's hard to find anything half decent for under €2000, especially with Tax and Test, so €500 for this was more than reasonable, even with its suspension issue. For the low mileage and history, it truly is a bargain.macron said:
How did you get 450bhp from the Volvo???!!!!??!
Just bolt ons (fuel system and injectors, hybrid K26 turbo, 3 inch exhaust and downpipe etc) and independent management! It's a B5244T5 (260hp stock) which are highly regarded as one of, if not the, best engine Volvo made - I searched years for one in manual form, and eventually found the one above, which is only 1 of 3 registered in Ireland.. They're incredibly strong, with guys in Sweden and Europe putting the same engine into the RWD Volvo's for drifting (same bolt pattern for the gearbox) and pushing 700+ hp still on stock internals, albeit pushing their luck. If I went fully forged on the internals with a block brace, you can push over 1000hp out of these
NateWM said:
macron said:
How did you get 450bhp from the Volvo???!!!!??!
Just bolt ons (fuel system and injectors, hybrid K26 turbo, 3 inch exhaust and downpipe etc) and independent management! It's a B5244T5 (260hp stock) which are highly regarded as one of, if not the, best engine Volvo made - I searched years for one in manual form, and eventually found the one above, which is only 1 of 3 registered in Ireland.. They're incredibly strong, with guys in Sweden and Europe putting the same engine into the RWD Volvo's for drifting (same bolt pattern for the gearbox) and pushing 700+ hp still on stock internals, albeit pushing their luck. If I went fully forged on the internals with a block brace, you can push over 1000hp out of these
macron said:
Oof, where's the thread on that?!??!
Here 
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Unfortunately, I've not updated it in over 3 years, so apologies for that! The car looks marginally the same as I wanted to turn it into a "sleeper"....of sorts, but here's two photos without de-railing the thread. I'll get around to updating the Volvo thread someday, alot has changed, and it was actually refreshing to re-read it just now
I had a feeling I'd seen that, I was second to reply!
Anyway I'll shut up about it, have you seen the thread here about the 2.7 where the owner has got fairly deep into it?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Not sure the prop shaft is something that will trouble yours, but maybe some useful intel from the rest of it?
Anyway I'll shut up about it, have you seen the thread here about the 2.7 where the owner has got fairly deep into it?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Not sure the prop shaft is something that will trouble yours, but maybe some useful intel from the rest of it?
macron said:
I had a feeling I'd seen that, I was second to reply!
Anyway I'll shut up about it, have you seen the thread here about the 2.7 where the owner has got fairly deep into it?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Not sure the prop shaft is something that will trouble yours, but maybe some useful intel from the rest of it?
That's a previous gen C5. To be honest, the thought of anything with the 2.7 turbo terrifies me :heheAnyway I'll shut up about it, have you seen the thread here about the 2.7 where the owner has got fairly deep into it?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Not sure the prop shaft is something that will trouble yours, but maybe some useful intel from the rest of it?
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