Audi A6 3.0 Tdi buying advice

[frankodrebin]

Afternoon All,

The time has come to buy a new family car and I've seen an Audi A6 3.0 Tdi Quattro on a 55 plate, specifically:

http://www.justaudivw.co.uk/used/audi/a6/3-0-tdi-q...

I've spent a bit of time researching these cars and I'd like to know the answers to some questions I have about them:

I've found out that these can suffer from expensive injector problems - I'd like to know if a car of this mileage would be likely to suffer from this in the future, or if they were going to go they would have gone by now?

And from what I've found out the gearboxes (tiptronic) seem pretty reliable is that the case?

And is there anything else I should be aware of?

I'm aware that older cars need more looking after (my current car is a 1991 MX-5), but is this car getting to the mileage/age that major (expensive!) things are going to be breaking in the next few years?

Thanks in advance,

Marc

[blueg33]

Lots of threads on this subject. PH Search is your friend.

http://www.pistonheads.com/Gassing/topic.asp?h=27&...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=140...

[frankodrebin]

Thanks for the reply!

The one I linked has sold now but off to see another one tomorrow, manual but still the 3.0 tdi Quattro.