Update on the Audi S5! IT'S NOT MINE!! Dad's RS5? NOPE!!
10-02-2013, 11:24 AM
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My main issue has been the slave and master cylinders. They were replaced a month ago, and today the car is back at the shop for the same issue.
I have also done carbon cleaning due to build up (was giving me missfires in 4 cylinders lol)
All and all is a great car, just expensive to maintain. I have done all the mechanical work on all my previous cars, but when it came to the Audi I have taken it to the Audi dealership to get worked on to get that 12 month warranty on their repairs - so you pay a lot for labor but if it breaks down again you wont have to pay twice.
Just want something with lower miles and get that Japanese reliability back
I have also done carbon cleaning due to build up (was giving me missfires in 4 cylinders lol)
All and all is a great car, just expensive to maintain. I have done all the mechanical work on all my previous cars, but when it came to the Audi I have taken it to the Audi dealership to get worked on to get that 12 month warranty on their repairs - so you pay a lot for labor but if it breaks down again you wont have to pay twice.
Just want something with lower miles and get that Japanese reliability back
You'll get more love for German cars then Acura in Car Talk. As mentioned, we had 2 previously and both were solid... each having less issues then my TL. Our MB (current stablemate) has been bulletproof as well.It's an age old debate that goes on in Car Talk fairly regularly. So no need to go over it again... but sad to hear of marinse's issues with the S5 as most of what I have read/heard before has been very positive.
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10-02-2013, 11:26 AM
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10-02-2013, 11:38 AM
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Sorry to hear about the S5, marinse. Looks like VAG still hasn't figured out the carbon buildup issue... they would do well to emulate Toyota's D4-S.
10-02-2013, 12:24 PM
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My main issue has been the slave and master cylinders. They were replaced a month ago, and today the car is back at the shop for the same issue.
I have also done carbon cleaning due to build up (was giving me missfires in 4 cylinders lol)
All and all is a great car, just expensive to maintain. I have done all the mechanical work on all my previous cars, but when it came to the Audi I have taken it to the Audi dealership to get worked on to get that 12 month warranty on their repairs - so you pay a lot for labor but if it breaks down again you wont have to pay twice.
Just want something with lower miles and get that Japanese reliability back
I have also done carbon cleaning due to build up (was giving me missfires in 4 cylinders lol)
All and all is a great car, just expensive to maintain. I have done all the mechanical work on all my previous cars, but when it came to the Audi I have taken it to the Audi dealership to get worked on to get that 12 month warranty on their repairs - so you pay a lot for labor but if it breaks down again you wont have to pay twice.
Just want something with lower miles and get that Japanese reliability back
Maj, I called out Meko and Austin, they'd been riding me hard :ghey: about making a video.
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10-02-2013, 12:52 PM
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Not the news I wanted to hear about the S5 as I was thinking of going to look at one and trade the F in on it. However, I love the reliability I had had. I drive to much not to have it.
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10-02-2013, 12:55 PM
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10-02-2013, 12:56 PM
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10-02-2013, 12:57 PM
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10-02-2013, 12:58 PM
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or C63 with 6.2L V8 
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10-02-2013, 01:00 PM
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Well, it was a friend's lease that I would have been picking up but couldn't wrap my head around the lease payments. Shoot, I guess I'm in a good thread to have pretended it was mine. He paid extra to get it in sprint blue. The car got a lot of attention everywhere I went with it.
Gorgeous, but no way, my first experience with German can't be with something I can't afford to maintain in addition to the payment.
marinse, great car, great mods to it and as a fellow self photographer (selfies?!!?) I applaud your skill. I'm still very green.
Gorgeous, but no way, my first experience with German can't be with something I can't afford to maintain in addition to the payment.
marinse, great car, great mods to it and as a fellow self photographer (selfies?!!?) I applaud your skill. I'm still very green.
10-02-2013, 01:16 PM
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Stop stealing pics of my sprint blue S5, that looks off-blue in certain light.. 
10-02-2013, 02:03 PM
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Alright Austin, enough with the picture whoring 
10-02-2013, 02:11 PM
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10-02-2013, 02:15 PM
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10-02-2013, 02:26 PM
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I have put 79k miles on my IS-F in the past 3 years. Water pump replaced under warranty and is a known issue with the 2GIS. Subwoofer replaced under warranty. Only repair I paid for was to replace one dead HID bulb. Other than that nothing but tires and brake pads in that time.
I assume that would most likely not be the case with the S5? I really want to own a German car but I drove so much I need something super reliable.
I assume that would most likely not be the case with the S5? I really want to own a German car but I drove so much I need something super reliable.
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10-02-2013, 02:45 PM
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I have put 79k miles on my IS-F in the past 3 years. Water pump replaced under warranty and is a known issue with the 2GIS. Subwoofer replaced under warranty. Only repair I paid for was to replace one dead HID bulb. Other than that nothing but tires and brake pads in that time.
I assume that would most likely not be the case with the S5? I really want to own a German car but I drove so much I need something super reliable.
I assume that would most likely not be the case with the S5? I really want to own a German car but I drove so much I need something super reliable.
10-02-2013, 03:09 PM
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10-02-2013, 03:12 PM
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I have put 79k miles on my IS-F in the past 3 years. Water pump replaced under warranty and is a known issue with the 2GIS. Subwoofer replaced under warranty. Only repair I paid for was to replace one dead HID bulb. Other than that nothing but tires and brake pads in that time.
I assume that would most likely not be the case with the S5? I really want to own a German car but I drove so much I need something super reliable.
I assume that would most likely not be the case with the S5? I really want to own a German car but I drove so much I need something super reliable.
Wait, nevermind,
for a minute there I though I was in Car Talk
10-02-2013, 03:15 PM
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I have put 79k miles on my IS-F in the past 3 years. Water pump replaced under warranty and is a known issue with the 2GIS. Subwoofer replaced under warranty. Only repair I paid for was to replace one dead HID bulb. Other than that nothing but tires and brake pads in that time.
I assume that would most likely not be the case with the S5? I really want to own a German car but I drove so much I need something super reliable.
I assume that would most likely not be the case with the S5? I really want to own a German car but I drove so much I need something super reliable.
10-02-2013, 03:18 PM
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I would think 26 psi boost = unreliable
But WTF do I know. Mines at 12 on a good day.
But WTF do I know. Mines at 12 on a good day.
10-02-2013, 03:31 PM
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Hopefully you don't mean C63 AMG reliability? I don't know if they changed the trans the but the original I read about lots of failures.
10-02-2013, 03:55 PM
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That would be 
10-02-2013, 04:12 PM
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10-02-2013, 04:17 PM
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with all the REAL people with REAL info in this thread....guess the OP got off with ONLY a slightly sore butthole....
10-02-2013, 04:55 PM
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Still in Car Talk.. 
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10-02-2013, 04:56 PM
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yummy...flex them muscles and move this to ramblings....
pretty please
pretty please
10-02-2013, 05:02 PM
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I've considered it...but, I don't have the heart, really.
In all seriousness, while the OP did lie...getting caught and the humiliation of this thread alone is enough punishment. He's also more or less taken it and not try to ante up on the full-retard.
I won't feed him to the Rambling wolves.
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10-02-2013, 05:03 PM
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even if I say all hail Megat___....
unless you want me to say, LEGO's are awes___....
unless you want me to say, LEGO's are awes___....
10-02-2013, 05:04 PM
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It's really just a formality at this point.. call it good bookkeeping 
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10-02-2013, 05:54 PM
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C'mon....page 7 C'mon