ltooz_a6_a8_q7

It's a nice and windy day in the bay area, it's time to change my 2006 Audi A8L, it has 123k miles on it now. Amazon has 0-40W on sale for $22 with free shipping and a filter for $10. The amazing thing is the car doesn't burn any oil, again, the oil is just dark. I've been using the mityVac for a few years now, my car is still running fine regardless of dirty oil still remains on the bottom of the pan... As I believe, the car only break if you don't have oil, as long as the oil level is full, it's fine regardless of how dark it is. Again, it's my car and it's been doing very well for me. It's already 5 years and 50k miles exactly. I got my money worth, any other miles will be icing on the cake.
It's been. the most reliable car even compare to my friends Lexus, Acura, Honda, BMW and Mercedes and they're not even as fun, comfortable and NO movies or TV in their cars... LOL. $150/year for 5 years including a bad air strut? That's unheard of for any car.
Never forget to lubricate those hood hinges, I don't want them to snap off... It will be a horror story.










Cheers,
Louis

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NeonAudi

My 2003 Audi A8 with less than 100 k miles on it has cost me more or less 1000$ per month in maintenance. Bought it 18 months ago.
Not all are as fortunate.

ltooz_a6_a8_q7

Sorry to hear, logically I would never own anything that costs $1000 in maintenance a year, not a month. What's maintenance? I wrote a post on how to find an A8 D3, but not many people seem to care to read. Buy one that's everything is working, if something is not working, make sure you don't need it. Change oil every year with Mobil 1. If the car starts, idles well, accelerate quickly, then enjoy. When something breaks fix it, not breaking with interval by taking it to the shops every 10k, 15k miles. Never use VCDS while the car is working, people get bored and scan and start fixing working things and break them in process, then again, just change oil every year, no flushing this, that, scan, fix or spend less than $100 a year is against forum experts policy
Cheers,
Louis

NeonAudi

Well I´m hoping the car will function perfectly many years now not costing alot at all. The most expensive thing was fixing the camchain tensioners. The car was close to getting sold for parts.

dvs_dave