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I'm planning on buying a used TT within the next few months. I want the coupe, 225HP, Quatro. Is there anything specific I should be watching out for?  SignatureLife is too short to play cheap guitars. MY TT IS SWEET EXCEPT FOR A FEW THINGS 1 THE GEAR SHIFT DONT WORK AND B. IF YOU DRIVE IT FOR VERY LONG THE ENGINE HEATS UP AND IT SMELLS REAL BAD BUT OTHER THAN THAT ITS A SICK RIDE > I'm planning on buying a used TT within the next few months. I > want the coupe, 225HP, Quatro. > > Is there anything specific I should be watching out for? > I'm planning on buying a used TT within the next few months. I > want the coupe, 225HP, Quatro. > > Is there anything specific I should be watching out for? speeding tickets. SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > speeding tickets. Watch out for the cops, and the speeding tickets will take care of themselves. SignatureLife is too short to play cheap guitars. > I'm planning on buying a used TT within the next few months. I > want the coupe, 225HP, Quatro. > > Is there anything specific I should be watching out for? Apart from the usual accident damage, and general neglect some owners seem to display - one of the important issues are a compete service history. The other is to ensure that ONLY the correct specification of VW approved fully synthetic oil has been used. HTH SignatureSean '07 Audi B7 RS4, '06 Golf V GTI 2.0T FSI DSG, '03 Audi B6 S4 v8 (gone), '99 Astra 1.8 Sport (gone), '99 Honda CBR6FX On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:40:34 +0100, against all advice, something compelled "LeakiestWink" <you.ARE.the.weakest.link@good.bye>, to say: > > > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > HTH It does, thank you. I hear of a sludge issue with the 1.8T. How does one go about discovering if an engine has it? SignatureLife is too short to play cheap guitars. (...) >It does, thank you. I hear of a sludge issue with the 1.8T. How >does one go about discovering if an engine has it? No one usually discovers it until it is too late. Inspecting the underside of the oil cap is usally a dead give away. > (...) > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > No one usually discovers it until it is too late. Inspecting the > underside of the oil cap is usally a dead give away. Yeah, that's really the only way to tell. If there is a sticky residue on the underside of the cap, or if the inside of the engine that you can see looks 'gummy' (versus relatively clean) then 'run away'.... But I don't recall that the TT had this issue, it was primarily with the longitudinal engine mountings like the A4 - the TT is transverse, correct? Dan D '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6 (sludge-free) Central NJ USA <sludge in my motor makes me grumpy> > But I don't recall that the TT had this issue, it was primarily with > the longitudinal engine mountings like the A4 - the TT is transverse, > correct? Yeah, if it's not a quattro it's FWD, and in either case it's a transverse mount. I wonder why this would make a difference? SignatureLife is too short to play cheap guitars. > <sludge in my motor makes me grumpy> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > -- > Life is too short to play cheap guitars. I think the sludging issue was caused by excessive heat build-up in the turbo, which cooked the oil. Seems to me I recall reading somewhere that the transverse and longitudinal versions of the 1.8T had slightly different routing of the exhaust manifold and turbo plumbing, leading to higher temps around the turbo in the long. version. At any rate, it was also caused, at least in part, but Audi's 10k oil change intervals and specification of regular (non-synthetic) oil that broke down more quickly. They change to a 5k initial oil change interval, switched to a larger oil filter and now recommend only synthetic oil. Dan D '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6 Central NJ USA >I'm planning on buying a used TT within the next few months. I >want the coupe, 225HP, Quatro. > >Is there anything specific I should be watching out for? Ignore what Gerky Gatzoz has to say. He is a spammer that has haunted this newsgroup for awhile. Ignore him. I've been driving Audis for more than 20 years and everyone I have owned has served me wonderfully. There are several TTs in the club I belong to and all are happy with their cars. Dave RS6 > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:36:26 -0700, Steve Daniels <sdaniels@gorge.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Ignore what Gerky Gatzoz has to say. He is a spammer that has haunted > this newsgroup for awhile. Ignore him. Yeah, that was pretty obvious. I've been lurking here for a while. > I've been driving Audis for more than 20 years and everyone I have > owned has served me wonderfully. There are several TTs in the club I > belong to and all are happy with their cars. I'll probably start looking in earnest come January, unless some killer deal just jumps out and grabs me by the face. SignatureLife is too short to play cheap guitars. > I'll probably start looking in earnest come January, unless some > killer deal just jumps out and grabs me by the face. If you are going to buy from a dealer mid December is a good time as they will be doing bugger all other business and may be more desperate for a sale HTH C > > > I'll probably start looking in earnest come January, unless some > > killer deal just jumps out and grabs me by the face. > > If you are going to buy from a dealer mid December is a good time as they > will be doing bugger all other business and may be more desperate for a sale It's a good strategy generally, but around here the Audi dealers have a Take It or Leave It attitude. Now if I wanted a Miata . . . SignatureLife is too short to play cheap guitars. Dealer told me slow months were July and Aug. Also worth a thought on your timing within the month you buy - i.e. has the sales exec hit his required target? On 17/8/07 12:52, in article 46c58b9c$0$21098$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk, >> I'll probably start looking in earnest come January, unless some >> killer deal just jumps out and grabs me by the face. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > HTH > C > I'm planning on buying a used TT within the next few months. I > want the coupe, 225HP, Quatro. > > Is there anything specific I should be watching out for? Actually my '03 has given me a few minor problems: 1) Rattles! 2) Ignition coils. Apparently there was no recall like on A4s and GTI/Jettas of similar years. Luckily it was still under warranty. 3) Rattles! 4) A recent problem was that my car would just die while on the freeway (at 80mph) and while braking. All the gauges would just quickly drop to zero, all lights would shut off, etc. Just as quickly the engine would start up and continue like nothing happened. It happened a few times over about a 2 week period. No fault codes appeared. 5) Did I mention rattles? I guess 4 isn't really minor, but it stopped happening. SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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