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Originally Posted by Banstead Stig
How long have you had yours now?
What are the real costs looking like?
You've summed up how I feel! There's just something about having a V8 that appeals to me.
I'm going to have a test of a RS3 as they look to be impressive cars. Not sure I can live without an estate car though... it doesn't have a V8 either!  |
I've had mine for about a month and a half, as said they're not the cheapest car lol, according to the car computer I'm averaging 17mpg but can get as much as 23-25 on a long motorway run, average about 250-300 miles on a full tank, the most costly thing is the servicing, I've serviced mine once since I've had it and the thing is, with it being a v8 it holds 9.6 litres of oil, 8 spark plugs. So it's around £200 if you service it yourself with decent oil and iridium spark plugs with a genuine oil filter from Audi, but all this is really irrelevant as you don't buy a car like this to watch the fuel and worry about the next service lol, my advice would be if your gonna go for the v8 please make sure the timing chains have been done aswell as well as all the guides ect as the guides start to wear after around 100k miles and if these need replacing Audi quote £4.500, the chain kit alone is about £1.300 than something like 39hours labour, lucky enough mine was done lol