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'08 A4 1.8T FSI petrol.. thoughts

  • 21-08-2020 11:26pm
    #1
    W123-80's
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    As the title says, I'm looking for any thoughts on a '08 A4 1.8T FSI petrol. Car has 100k miles, it's English.
    Service history to 76k miles and 5 stamps in the book. I think I could have it cleared for around €3k.
    My initial research suggests oil burning and tensioner issues.
    As always I'm looking for something hassle free so I like to err on the side of caution!
    If it's a gamble I'm out!
    Any thoughts, opinions or otherwise appreciated.


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  • #2
    Heres Johnny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Heres Johnny


    W123-80's wrote: »
    Hello all,

    As the title says, I'm looking for any thoughts on a '08 A4 1.8T FSI petrol. Car has 100k miles, it's English.
    Service history to 76k miles and 5 stamps in the book. I think I could have it cleared for around €3k.
    My initial research suggests oil burning and tensioner issues.
    As always I'm looking for something hassle free so I like to err on the side of caution!
    If it's a gamble I'm out!
    Any thoughts, opinions or otherwise appreciated.

    If you're getting a car across the Irish Sea, getting it properly checked out and paying vrt all for 3k you're buying a very cheap car from another country in the premium segment 12 years old of course its a gamble. Could be fine of course but I'm suggesting you could easily put half that into the car again to fix a few issues in first few months.
    I'm an Audi man myself and up to a few years ago I bought older premium cars for peanuts and generally got lucky with them. Just get it well checked out, I always did and it paid dividends.


  • #3
    landmarkjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 705 ✭✭✭landmarkjohn


    Love that engine but it does need to be looked after re oil changes. Issue with oil pickup in the sump (on earlier ones anyway).


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