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I have about 24k miles on my FSI engine, I'm interested to check this out...
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I'll agree with that.
Once I found out all the problems they were facing with that issue and the cost to clean once every xx miles, I took them off my list.
Maybe that helped drive cost down in addition to the econmy.
If you are under warranty nothing. But and this is a big but... you must have a CEL light on in order for them to perform the cleaning. The cleaning involves taking off the manifold (no small task) and walnut blasting. Yes... walnut blasting since you can't sand blast valves they use walnut shells which if left over just burn up in the cylinder.
If you are out of warranty I would find a reliable third party shop to perform the cleaning. That way theirs less price gauging involved.
And just so we're clear, I love Audi's and love the RS4. I just couldn't stomach having to do cleanings on it every couple years.
I would speculate this is so because a tuned 3.0T S4 will outperform according to more than a few folks. I haven't seen it but it's been posted on AW or Audizine.
People probably want to dump before the market for them drops although AoA has supposedly not decided to bring the new RS4 to the US which will be in Avant form only.
WOW, i never knew of this.. dissapointed in Audi.
No wonder their engines dont get past 170k MI.
And I just bought an A4 convertible. B7, on top of my B6 A4.
4.2FSI carbon problem will be a long term pain in the a$$ for the RS4 and R8. I was in the market to add one of these in the future but the carbon deal put a stop to it.
You could have purchased a brand new RS4 late last year for mid 50s. The economy has killed the price of high end cars.
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4.2FSI carbon problem will be a long term pain in the a$$ for the RS4 and R8.
Strange how you don't hear much about this problem on the other 4.2FSI cars (S5, Q7). I'm definitely going to pull my manifold off to have a looksee this winter.
__________________ 2009 Audi S5 - Work VS-XX - Milltek Sport cat-back - AWE Downpipes - KW V3 - STaSIS anti-roll bar - Porterfield R4S 1992 Toyota Supra Turbo - Work VS-SS - 2JZGTE + GT35R - sold 2000 Mercedes C230 Kompressor - Wald + lots of Mcintosh - sold
i wrote in another thread that after recently driving a new s4 I thot it was just as powerful as a rs4. To me it seem like Audi is a vicitim of it's own success, notwithstanding the carbon issue.
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