Audi S5 (pictures)

[Lostprophet]

Awesome cars... Enjoy!

[mikeh501]

excellent. thanks all!

[Dr G]

Very popular cars at the moment, our last two have sold within 2 days each.

[Lostprophet]

I wonder why?

[mikeh501]

for me... it was a combination of price point and wanting to own a V8 before nobody makes them anymore!

[Dr G]

Mostly because they're lovely cars and bloody good value.

[8cylinder]

Not an s5 but got a pic of an 87 k rs5 if u guys would like a look?
87k being the price the guy is paying for it.

[8cylinder]

Here u go.

[deejayvirg]

Great car in the there!The color does everything in my point of view!

[Lostprophet]

I do like the RS5 but I struggle with 2 things... firstly with the example above the red roof on a white body. Hell no. Only if my moobs become 34DD's! Also.. £87k for a A5 on steroids? Hmmm thats a lot of cash. I wonder what else you can get for that...!!!!!!

[SFO]

any one has the S5 with the supercharged V6?

[BAHN-STORMA]

SFO said:

any one has the S5 with the supercharged V6?

I did... until the engine blew up at the beginning of this year!

[SFO]

BAHN-STORMA said:

I did... until the engine blew up at the beginning of this year!

did you get a replacement? if not, why not?

[FisiP1]

BAHN-STORMA said:

SFO said:

any one has the S5 with the supercharged V6?

I did... until the engine blew up at the beginning of this year!

Wow, details?

[BAHN-STORMA]

SFO said:

BAHN-STORMA said:

I did... until the engine blew up at the beginning of this year!

did you get a replacement? if not, why not?

Car was about 18 months old and had done 18k miles.

Credit due to Audi, they offered replacement engine straight away under warranty. Took about six weeks to get a crated one in, dealer showed me their trade receipt - £11k plus VAT... Plus fitting!!! Wouldn't have fancied that bill and very glad I hadn't had it mapped!

I didn't really want the car back after that and they 'helped' me into something else.

[SFO]

befiore it went bang, how did you find it?

[FisiP1]

BAHN-STORMA said:

SFO said:

BAHN-STORMA said:

I did... until the engine blew up at the beginning of this year!

did you get a replacement? if not, why not?

Car was about 18 months old and had done 18k miles.

Credit due to Audi, they offered replacement engine straight away under warranty. Took about six weeks to get a crated one in, dealer showed me their trade receipt - £11k plus VAT... Plus fitting!!! Wouldn't have fancied that bill and very glad I hadn't had it mapped!

I didn't really want the car back after that and they 'helped' me into something else.

It just suddenly let go with no warning or did you get an idea that something was wrong beforehand?

Really interested in getting a car with one of those engines but this is really concerning.

[BAHN-STORMA]

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SFO said:

befiore it went bang, how did you find it?

Loved the look and interior and it sounded really nice as well - S-Tronic blips the throttle nicely on down shifts!

Very fast in a straight line and stable at speed, but the only thing I didn't like was the handling - too wallowy and no fun to chuck round corners (no turn in and too much oversteer).

They loaned me a TT while it was in and I ended up buying one. Not as fast, but much sharper to drive.

[BAHN-STORMA]

FisiP1 said:

BAHN-STORMA said:

SFO said:

BAHN-STORMA said:

I did... until the engine blew up at the beginning of this year!

did you get a replacement? if not, why not?

Car was about 18 months old and had done 18k miles.

Credit due to Audi, they offered replacement engine straight away under warranty. Took about six weeks to get a crated one in, dealer showed me their trade receipt - £11k plus VAT... Plus fitting!!! Wouldn't have fancied that bill and very glad I hadn't had it mapped!

I didn't really want the car back after that and they 'helped' me into something else.

It just suddenly let go with no warning or did you get an idea that something was wrong beforehand?

Really interested in getting a car with one of those engines but this is really concerning.

A couple of weeks before it developed an intermittent fault and occasionally wouldn't start and then started cutting out whilst driving. It went into Audi and I think they replaced the fuel pump, which seemed to cure it.

About 4 days later (just after I had just bought 2 new tyres...Grrrr!!!), I was driving down the A3 at about 70mph and I just felt it lose power again. I limped off the road and parked it up, but above about 2000 rpm it was knocking like hell and that was the end of that!

I did Google it at the time, but didn't find anything to indicate a common fault, so I wouldn't worry too much. But... I wouldn't run one without a warranty, just in case!

[Lostprophet]

Glad I dont have the supercharged car!

The V8s have been around for a while now. Kinda glad I have one of those!