Hey. It runs. Good clutch. Working ac. Power windows. Aux in. Had to change the speakers and tires.
Just needed a beater for when the VW is in the shop. Like someone said, believe it was gtifan99, when you track your car, the whole thing is a consumable.
Hey. It runs. Good clutch. Working ac. Power windows. Aux in. Had to change the speakers and tires.
Just needed a beater for when the VW is in the shop. Like someone said, believe it was gtifan99, when you track your car, the whole thing is a consumable.
Oh hell no. Bad choice. These cars are very expensive to maintain and you are considering one that is likely gong to need thousand of dollars put back into it. So many points of possible failure at that mileage. Many of the repairs will cost more than the price of the car.
Everyone is telling you Honda or Toyota and they are absolutely right. Those cars are so much cheaper to repair, much more reliable especially at higher mileage. An Audi at that age and mileage is going to be a rolling money pit. I love these cars but they do not make a good car for your nephew that is struggling to pay for a 2,000 dollar car and needs reliable transportation that will get him where he needs to go without spending much money beyond gass and oil.
Well this car is essentially a GTI in terms of power, suspension and brakes but not trans.
And yes these motors at that mileage do need timing belt replaced or it can destroy the motor if belt breaks. It is not a random thing, it will happen if not replaced. It would be worth asking the previous owner if that was addressed as it is a significant expense.
Ok I'll address a couple things as a former 2006 A4 owner.
At that mileage, it should have timing BELT (yet belt, not chain) done already. If not, it WILL need it.
Cam followers ARE an issue on this one. But it is a pretty easy check/fix for someone who is slightly mechanically inclined.
Suspension components can be expensive (bushings for upper and lower control arms for example).
I only had mine from 2009-2011. But aside from a blown diverter valve and destroying an axle from being too low, the car was fine.
I got it when it had 50k miles and traded it in for a MK6 GTI at 80,000 miles because I suspected that the CVT tranny was starting to go.
But the car was APR stage 2 and I didn't baby it. Pretty much anything that went wrong with that car was because of me lol.
Check out the B7 forum on Audizine.
So to Close this out, we passed on the car. After talking more with the owner it became real apparent he was lying about alot of things and we wasn't going down that rabbit hole. So the hunt continues. Thanks everyone for the input !!!