rs avant......?

[andyleeds]

hi everyone, looks like i have sold my disco and am now looking out for an rs6 avant, am looking at getting and early one up to 80k in miles but lower the better.

i know about the drc issues and it would seem that cambelt is a big job so along with this i wondered what you knowledgeable people thought that i should be looking for ......how often should be the cambelt be changed?

is the ski hatch something that is standard as this is a must have for me

if anyone know of any ones that might be for sale and that would fit the bill

any info gratefully received!

if i cant find anything that fits the bill is there another estate that has the ski hatch....?

best

andy

[duncansaunders]

Cam belt will be every 40,000 miles.

Ski hatch unlikely to be standard.

Have a look over on rs246.com or audisrs.com

[Dr G]

Have a quick read through all the recent threads on here, been covered in detail quite a few times, in short:

DRC
Gearbox
Brakes
Tyres
Cambelt

Buy a loved car and bear in mind that they are expensive to maintain correctly

[ClaphamGT3]

Dr G said:

Have a quick read through all the recent threads on here, been covered in detail quite a few times, in short:

DRC
Gearbox
Brakes
Tyres
Cambelt

Buy a loved car and bear in mind that they are expensive to maintain correctly

Spectacularly so; my wife's RS6 is the most expensive car to run I've ever owned - & thats up against some stonkingly stiff opposition.

[CraigW]

yup, get a good warranty. Mine was on paper probably the best car I have ever owned and almost certainly the fastest, but boy oh boy, circa £20k warranty claims in 2 years would have broken the bank.

The buyer of mine got an almost mint and totally sorted car with 60k miles for £16000 (a year ago).

Look hard for a good one. As said above rs246 a good source of info on them.

Oh, and the DMS tip-gearbox upgrade is an absolute must have IMHO.

[andyleeds]

i am beginning to think that this could be a mistake.......? i have a 993 and the disco was not cheap to service at £500 a go, but both are ultra reliable......maybe i should just stick with them! lol

[Seez]

If you are stretching yourself to get one then it could be a bad idea, personally I would allow at least an extra £2k-£3k for extras/maintenance after the purchase price for one of these to sort out anything that needs doing. If you dont need to spend it then its a bonus.

[istoo]

slight diversion, the title says RS.... avant
Have you considered an S6 V10 avant or a B7 RS4 avant?
There is a thread a little lower down on the V10.

[Dr G]

Seez said:

If you are stretching yourself to get one then it could be a bad idea, personally I would allow at least an extra £2k-£3k for extras/maintenance after the purchase price for one of these to sort out anything that needs doing. If you dont need to spend it then its a bonus.

That's a very fair comment actually - ditto annual maintenance. Allow yourself a couple of K then if nothing goes wrong it's a bonus.

Even little jobs on RS6s are expensive unfortunately; think of it as a heavier 911 turbo in terms of general expenses.

[andyleeds]

rs4 is too small and for the money that i have to spend i dont think that i could get one, do they have the ski hatch options? i might be better off looking for a 2.7 diesel, plenty of go and more reliable?

[sv]

B7 RS4 avant has a ski hatch, but the car's appreciably smaller than an RS6.

[Adam B]

andyleeds said:

rs4 is too small and for the money that i have to spend i dont think that i could get one, do they have the ski hatch options? i might be better off looking for a 2.7 diesel, plenty of go and more reliable?

through-load ski hatch (complete with ski bag) is std on my RS4 saloon so no doubt on avant too

much better car than RS6 but much more dosh and smaller

[andyleeds]

does anyone know what sort of length it will take so it doesn't encroach on the front seats etc, my skis are 181 in length....andy

[sv]

From memory, it's a central ski hatch so (in theory) it shouldn't encroach on the front seats although the skis might compromise access to the handbrake. I've only throughloaded a standard lamp base in mine so I'll defer to an RS4 owning skier...

[Dr G]

Conveniently enough I've one of each in front of me - RS4 is 6' before encroaching on gear lever (but might encroach on elbow room a bit), you've got about 6/7 inches more in an RS6.

[Doovde]

Ski hatches are also standard on the B5 RS4 as well.

[Twit]

I've got a ski hatch with the bag etc on my S5, so I would have thought either S/RS 4 and 6 in either avant or saloon would accomodate it without touching the front seats; just got to find one with the right option.

[Adam B]

Twit said:

just got to find one with the right option.

why? its std spec on most if not all