Audi S4 2004 buying tips

[chippy17]

Dear all,

A good friend is going to look at one of these tomorrow, 77k fsh etc, anything out of ordinary to look for?

Thanks

[Dr G]

The silly smile in 2nd gear - if it's absent then your friend is not human

They don't go wrong very much, quite a few recent threads on here going into exactly this topic in detail but in short:

auxilliar rads
coil packs
brake pedal switch

Standard Audi stuff other than that so paint, panel gaps, brakes, tyres. Oh and they like a drink (fuel and oil).

[chippy17]

many thanks

[EC2]

Aux rads were the only problem I had in 60k+ in one, oh and a lower wishbone.

[TonyHetherington]

I had the rear mounts in the front wishbones go in mine which made the car creak horrifically when i drove it around potholed london; £500 later and it's as tight as a nat's chuff. Superb

Other than that - cracking cars. Check service history and all the other normal stuff, and it will be a belter

[Dr G]

I would say these cars are the unsung heroes of the S/RS world but over the last year or two people have really caught on to just how good a car they are and how underrated they were by the press.

Significantly more than the sum of their parts.

[chippy17]

thanks again guys, this friend lives in London and does not drive in London, so it is a car for going to see friends/relatives outside of the city.

He does about 4k a year and was going to buy newer A4 TFSI avant thingy but I showed him the error of his ways, S4 avant it is

[TonyHetherington]

I only do about 9k a year - any more than that and the fuel cost would start to be really difficult to justify (especially now...126.9 !!!???). Anyhow - at 4k per year, it's barely nothing. Good stuff

[chippy17]

TonyHetherington said:

I only do about 9k a year - any more than that and the fuel cost would start to be really difficult to justify (especially now...126.9 !!!???). Anyhow - at 4k per year, it's barely nothing. Good stuff

126.9mpg wow amazing driving

you are quite right, he refuses to buy a diesel and anything with less than 6 cylinders makes him unhappy! he said petrol prices do not make a huge amount of difference to him so would rather have the grunt

just realised you meant price!!!! lol

Edited by chippy17 on Friday 7th May 11:21

[TonyHetherington]

Yeah, 126.9 PENCE!!! I get about 16mpg average since last May.

When you compare 16mpg versus, say, 30mpg you think "wow that's ridiculous" but I then calculated how much it actually meant to me, with my mileage, per month in raw cash and it wasn't silly; something like £50 or so, I forget.

[chippy17]

TonyHetherington said:

Yeah, 126.9 PENCE!!! I get about 16mpg average since last May.

When you compare 16mpg versus, say, 30mpg you think "wow that's ridiculous" but I then calculated how much it actually meant to me, with my mileage, per month in raw cash and it wasn't silly; something like £50 or so, I forget.

well quite, he does under 5k a year say the average milelage per year is 10k it is the equivalent of doing about 32mpg, whilst also not putting too many miles on the car thus retaining more value