Good evening chaps and chapettes and hope you're all well,
I'm looking for some help frankly on the subject matter as per the thread title really and this seemed like a good starting point.
In a somewhat strange turn of events yesterday I have found myself with a bit of a conundrum as I've been offered the chance to buy a very nice S4 avant.
Now it wasn't really in my current plans to buy an S4 avant at the moment, well I wasn't looking to buy another car full stop to be honest as I was looking to get into RS4 avant ownership later in the year , but, this may be a much better option for me.
As much as i'd love to go the rs4 route I keep thinking the overall cost of ownership and running cost will be quite high as I would like to use it a fair bit.
But in the meantime this S4 has dropped into the equation making the descision a bit more one sided, similar performance but without quite so much of the expense required for specific service parts etc .
What I could really use peeps is some feedback on the real world cost of owning and running an S4 avant,
It goes without saying that the road tax will be double the cost of my current avant, insurance is only a bit more as i'm an old grey git..lol , and fuel cost are allways a very changeable factor and I don't really expect to get massive MPG figures from anthing that goes like stink.
But what about service costs and service parts for the engine, brakes are pretty well the same spec as what I have maybe a tad bigger disks but not on the replacement cost scale of rs4's items.
suspension is prettywell the same as my old bus as are many other parts.
The S4 avant in question is a jan 2008 car , so prettywell at the end of the B7 production run and has all the final mechanical revisions that were introduced for the S4 B7.
It is a full spec car with all the options you can possibly get or want( also a plus for my personal usage) in missano red.
35k miles from new and one previous owner that has had it serviced every 12 months wether it needed doing or not.
It's not cheap , but if the running cost etc are not stupid i'd love to get it so could really use some first hand info on the the subject before I make a more informed descision.
cheers and have a good evening peeps
rob
I'm looking for some help frankly on the subject matter as per the thread title really and this seemed like a good starting point.
In a somewhat strange turn of events yesterday I have found myself with a bit of a conundrum as I've been offered the chance to buy a very nice S4 avant.
Now it wasn't really in my current plans to buy an S4 avant at the moment, well I wasn't looking to buy another car full stop to be honest as I was looking to get into RS4 avant ownership later in the year , but, this may be a much better option for me.
As much as i'd love to go the rs4 route I keep thinking the overall cost of ownership and running cost will be quite high as I would like to use it a fair bit.
But in the meantime this S4 has dropped into the equation making the descision a bit more one sided, similar performance but without quite so much of the expense required for specific service parts etc .
What I could really use peeps is some feedback on the real world cost of owning and running an S4 avant,
It goes without saying that the road tax will be double the cost of my current avant, insurance is only a bit more as i'm an old grey git..lol , and fuel cost are allways a very changeable factor and I don't really expect to get massive MPG figures from anthing that goes like stink.
But what about service costs and service parts for the engine, brakes are pretty well the same spec as what I have maybe a tad bigger disks but not on the replacement cost scale of rs4's items.
suspension is prettywell the same as my old bus as are many other parts.
The S4 avant in question is a jan 2008 car , so prettywell at the end of the B7 production run and has all the final mechanical revisions that were introduced for the S4 B7.
It is a full spec car with all the options you can possibly get or want( also a plus for my personal usage) in missano red.
35k miles from new and one previous owner that has had it serviced every 12 months wether it needed doing or not.
It's not cheap , but if the running cost etc are not stupid i'd love to get it so could really use some first hand info on the the subject before I make a more informed descision.
cheers and have a good evening peeps
rob
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