mjscal

Have a 2015 Audi A8 4.0 with 89K miles. Currently do 4 days of 25 miles RT and one day of 200 miles RT.
Recently replaced front brakes and front bushings. New tires Michelin Pilot sport 4S last year. Have 120 K Audi warranty until November this year.
Turbo filter done last year. Any guesses as to how long before I start running into expensive repairs? Sell while still under warranty in November?

Puzz1

I have a 2015 A8 3.0 with 63k. Has been trouble free for most of the 9 years of ownership. I think mine will go another 100k or so. My plan is to keep it for another year and reassess. I would venture that with your turbo issue resolved you should be good for a while as well. I really want something else but the car still looks awesome and it drives perfectly.

OberklasseA8

Drive it until something major happens. If you are ok with the light to medium D4 maintenance, no better car ages like a fine wine then the Audi A8!

PS the used car market is low again on most models, so not a sellers market.

dxviddc

As Oberklasse said, this is the time to hold. Save the cash you can for bigger maintenance items down the line!

This car will age very gracefully and the 4.0 is a very stout motor. If you poke around the forums you'll see people with 150-200k+ mile examples running strong (and putting power down!).

I have no plans to sell my car any time soon, in fact I've been mentally parsing out my yearly mileage just to see where I'll fall in a few years. Even if I'm at 120,000 by the time I own the car outright, that's fine by me. These cars are built to last, if you can afford to hold on to it, don't let go.

mjscal

Forgot to mention that the front radar module died and it is now 2 months ordered.

mjscal

Recently at Dealer for service. Told car exceptionally clean. Offered 15K for it.

PaulW

If you are looking to sell, send me the details, I might be interested.

paulw at wilbur life dot com

Mike911A8

I recently decided that I was going to keep my S8+ “forever”, which at my age is probably another ten or twelve years max. I have about 59,000 miles on it, and I am now putting on about 6 or 7k annually, and if I run into a problem I’ll deal with it. This idea had been gradually building in my mind, but it was hammered home a few months ago when I took delivery of a new 2024 Porsche Cayenne S which replaced a 2014 Cayenne S. This is primarily my wife’s vehicle. There is nothing wrong with the new Cayenne, except it has no soul. I was able to improve it a bit by shutting down as many of the stupid apps that I could—it looked like an iPad inside. I felt like I was shutting down HAL.
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Another thing that crossed my mind is that dealers seem to be having a difficult time repairing newer vehicles. This option is based upon a general following of the D5 board. I may be getting an erroneous view of the situation, but time will tell. The D4 went through it’s teething stages, but there seems to be a good understanding of things going forward.

I actually started my “forever “ approach to vehicle ownership 13 years ago when I purchased a 2011 Porsche 997.2. At that time my 1985 911 was 25 years old, and I figured that the new 997 , maybe, would get me another 25 years, and that would get me to the end. I was prompted to make the purchase by the fact that Porsche was moving the 911 series into more of a grand touring category, so I got a small, light basic 997 with a manual transmission and I am delighted. I’ve got about 60,000 on this car, and I put about 6000 per year, so I expect to be ok. It’s been very good so far.

The common denominator is that I had lost interest in the new models coming down the pike.

Oh, as it turned out, my 1985 911 is still in my garage, with about 130,000 and 2000 annually, I think it will get to my finish line. It has been absolutely bullet proof!

Mike

kruat

Not exactly the same, but I plan on keeping my 15 TDI for quite awhile. It currently has 140k on it, and its our daily. I dont have to commute to work and the wifes retired, but we live in the country and have two active school aged kids, so the mileage will climb.

I can see putting another 100k on it without much problems. I've had to do some minor maintenance items, control arms, tires, brakes and such. All consumable items. And im in the process of deleting to get rid of the crappy egr system.

My issues is im not interested in electric cars, (and any i do like are way out of my price range) and dont care for the hybrid hype either. Since VAG screwed the pouche with the whole dieselgate thing, a new proper VAG diesel isn't in the cards. So here we are.

MP4.2+6.0

Mike, what you say makes sense. Absent being woo'ed by the everything has to be an iPad started by Model S, D4 is a great car. Mine is long paid, and taken the steeper early depreciation. License and insurance cheaper now too. I mostly only look newer for more true winter Sierra's use (ground clearance) or towing. But not compelling, and those depreciate like a rock with COVID scarcity over.

Meanwhile D4 S8 is as fast as most anything ICE out there, and remains total sleeper. In safety scenarios, having watched the usual Reels stuff, you start to see...over and over..the real world risk of tripping and flipping higher ride SUV's--from lowly RAV4's all the way up the luxo chain. Injury and death rates go up like 30x when that happens. Owning the gen 2 Q3 for the wife, touch is really in many ways a negative too, not a positive. VW and Audi are both starting to learn that as they get burned by rejections and basic interface mistakes on even their classic models like Golf's.