Everything Wrong With My 192k Mile RS4 From Cars and Bids 

every time you go for third I hold my breath. I love this car

In full transparency (now that you bought it) I hid that. Real nice...

Sweet. Excited for this series. Gotta love a high-mileage hero!

The sunroof rattle sounds like what I had in my A4 Avant! It was just two zip ties to fasten these fatigued clips attaching the "follower" to these pins on window mount/chassis. I would put it all back together but the pin kept popping out. I can't believe I improved a German engineered part with zip ties 🤣

Honestly this isnt as bad as I was expecting it! It has a lot of the common minor flaws that's you would have with a car of this age and mileage. I'm really excited to see more content on this car!

One of the all time great engines.

I’m glad you are happy man. That is a TON of work to keep on the road.

This will become best 200k miles RS4 in your hands, keep up the good work Eli!

OH damn! I used to watch your vids years ago when you had the GTi! Freakin' love these RS4s! Stoked for more content!

I've got a C5 RS6 in Daytona Grey (that I also won at Auction, BAT though in my case). Super reliable as the BCY engine was made with a partnership with Cosworth. Had it for over a year now and only had to change oil and brakes. Florida car as well. Had the water spot issue, used a water spot dissolver that worked pretty good, but nothing beats a good clay bar and wax. Good content! I'll be watching this one for sure!

I love my RSlow4! It’s so much fun to drive. It’s not the fastest car by any means. I could get walked by a most new cars in a straight line but that’s not what the car is about at all. It’s a great backroad car. It loves to rev and stay above 4K all the time. You actually need to beat on it a little to help with your carbon build up. If you have any questions I’d be happy to help! Definitely worth it and enjoy it man!

Ah man such a beautiful car. Congrats again.

So excited for this project!

I had a B7 RS4 in Daytona Grey with the titanium package, which was not a titanium color btw. It just gave you piano black trim instead of carbon on the inside and blacked out accents on the outside plus a darker greyish rim/s. The 4.2 kind of reminded me of my 2 stroke mx race bikes, you had to have them on the pipe/revved out to get any power. Same with my E92 M3 when I had it. I did love that RS4 and the only issue I ever had was the carbon build up. Had one friend who also had one and it suffered the suspension issue that ended up being a recall. One of the best Audi cars imo and it looks/looked fantastic. Congrats on your new wheels.

Love the videos , watching since the mk5 . This seems like a terrific project 🙂

not terrible for the high mileage, and she is pretty. can’t wait to see what you get into on this one

Nice buy! Can't wait to see what you do next.

I would like a wheel refinishing video

Whatever might be wrong with it, it’s not the looks! Can’t believe how good it still looks!

imagine messaging a dude after you sell it saying “i hit a bunch of shit” like god damn. Now you got a new car for content im excited to see more vids coming soon! Love the vids keep it up❤️

YES on Wheel refinishing

I guess you will have a lot more content lol. Love it!!!!

I JUST BOUGHT ONE TOO!! Thanks for all the info to convince me to do it.

Love that you're in an RS4.. following

You tune that right and it will hang with the S6 no problem. My Does 0-60 in 3.2 and it will smoke the S6 in the canyons too. I’ve had my RS4 for 8 years and my S6 is brand new, but the RS4 is it’s own beast and I will keep her forever. You just need to drop 10K in that car and will insane top to bottom. Good luck with everything 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Beautiful car man these really withstand the test of time

The first audi car i fell in love with…want one so bad!

Always a lovely car to have in a collection. Hope you manage to get it back to a good condition.

I just sold my RS4 and I miss it alot. Enjoy the car it's one of the best for sure!

I’m really liking these with the RS4

Keeeeeep the carbon cover that turned red it looks cool and adds character to the car!

The B7 RS4 is one of my favorite all-time cars. Not sure how much you paid for it but with almost 200,000 miles, you are a brave soul with obviously a lot of liquid cash on hand

YOU my friend, have a project car lol. I'm excited to see what you do

Yeah its crazy how much they are going up in value.

I love mine only had since May but honestly it's amazing. If you want one get one and don't look back.

For 192k and being an audi it’s pretty good. Imo.

Would love to see a wheel reconditioning video. I just bought a set of RS style wheels for our S5 cabrio about 3 months because our other wheels looked almost identical to yours with the flaking from a bad refinish job. Thinking about having ours powder coated. Love the idea of having two sets to run our summer and winter tires without the hassle of swapping tires to one set of rims each season.

Learned something new. I didn't know that Audi updated the chain tensioners on the rs4.. That's one of the things that has strayed me away from them for years, it used to be my dream car and I could've got one a long time ago, but that stopped me. Thanks for that info!

I had the same problem with my volume nob on my 13 S4. I had the nob replaced and it fixed it.

Rim refinish would be perfect timing for me...the dealership "refinished" my rims on my 2018 S6 when I bought it as the prior own pummeled them..6 months later & only 5000 miles the finish is chipping off. Unreal. Love the RS4 purchase.

With that many miles and an older Audi, I’m surprised it still runs. But damn man, good on you, that’s a nice deal if it holds out. Hope to see it cross 300k!

I hope you got a good deal. Seller is a DB for hiding issues. Rear bumper is probably normal. I see a lot of Audis with the plastic covers looking different than the body panels.

I’ve always loved the b6 -b7 styling. I’ll enjoy your series of fixing the small stuff to make it a real beauty. But those Audi Engines… great when they work, FML when they break. Engine rebuild?

Its an amazing car!!! My 2008 Honda Accord fell apart with only 168k miles

Can’t wait to see what you have in store for this beast!

thanks for the vid, i definitely want one of these, just trying to do my research =]

Just got a C7 A6 so I've been binging Audi things. Came across your channel and subscribed at "Massachusetts". Hope to see you around some day.

Seems like the seller wasn't too honest... Hope you are able to get everything to good shape soon though! Love your videos.

This is so sick

Ayye Shoutout TDIB And that Patterson Car Care!

Flaps are still an issue AFAIK. Lots of people remove them although the issue seems to be more to do with the screws that attach the flaps. They like to back themselves out and get chewed up in the cylinder

Mine grinds a little going into second when it’s cold. The MT90 helped a lot and it doesn’t really do it anymore. I found that if you shift fairly quick and deliberate then it doesn’t grind. If you shift into 2nd slowly and carefully then it grinds. If yours gets really bad then you can use redline lightweight shockproof and that will help. It’s rough on the brass syncros though. It’s sort of a last resort fluid change to get some more time out of it.

Let’s make the RS4 squeeze. I’ll look for one to buy 😄

Also if you drive in the rain with your window cracked water goes directly into the door speaker, glove box hinges break, and sometimes wiring for the trunk gets pinched and causes issues with the lock but it’s all worth putting up with!

MT90 fixed up my 260k mile A4's gearbox as well. I've used Motul's gearbox oils and they're pretty good as well.

RS4 Gang ! 🙏🏽😂

Just did injectors in my 140k mile RS4. Throttle response and acceleration to redline are both notably improved.

Had rs4 with 64k miles! I sold it I really loved the sound coming out from the exhaust, the entire season car! the only reason I sold it was, IT's nice but pretty expensive to fix! and there was always something to fix, first day I took the car home had check engine light but it was $40 bucks fix! I did carbon clean/deflap. miltech exhaust. had it for about a year!

as ex owner of b7 a4, you will have to change lightbulb from time to time(stop light,registration light), very cheap 0.5$, and seat belt might start beeb on hot weather bcs of stupidly located sensor in seatbelt plug(1mm shorter than connector from belt)..little tape will do the job and it won t beep... very good car...unnecessary crap window switches..

A lot of these issues are similar to the s6 v10. But hopefully it doesn’t cost you as much. I also did the carbon clean replaced install manifold and added Jhm intake spacers. You will definitely notice a huge increase in power and throttle response. Also replaced both HPFP and also fuel rails. And got the JHM ecu and Tcm tune . It runs great still some more stuff to replace and I’m now at 76k miles

Brilliant 🥂🥂🤙

With my rs4 cabriolet I found that on the anodized aluminum aka the widow trim is that if you use baby oil with a microfibre cloth on the widow trim the baby oil revives the window trim and makes it look really good

I would like a full interior cleaning and repair video

Love my RS4.

These cars look so good. I have a b7s4 DTM edition with almost 150k and it is in very good condition. Wish I could have found an RS4

pretty good considering it was $16,750

Its beautiful…

One of the best sounding V8s ever made imho. Car is amazing despite the high mileage

The flaps itself normally does not fail. It's the electrovalve, beyond the intake manifold which corrodes, if water gets in and then the flaps do not open again. You see a dent in the torque curve for higher RPM's.

Nice!

exactly the series I've always wanted. Hope to own one very soon also.

I have a strong feeling your RU-vid channel will thrive from this

I love the b7 rs4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Redline MTF is so amazing.

What I like about the RS4 is that it is all about the drama (the engine... that sound!). Total drivers car and it's kind of nice that you can have with with it and not end up in jail. Though I suppose you could do that in any car 🤣 I was curious as to if there was any interior peeling?

Is it weird I kinda miss your GTI? I still love hot hatchbacks to this day. I started watching your channel since then. Nice find but 200k on an Audi makes me nervous 🤣. Can’t wait to see what you do with this!

SMH, man I bought a B8.5 S4 because of your videos. Now I’m getting that itch again! Lol

Try some Pennzoil Synchromesh too, it's good stuff

i have the same problem with the window trims on my A6, its the TFR hand car washes use it gets behind the lacquer.

With the colour difference between body and bumper, my A6 is the same. Both front and rear bumpers are slightly different shades (only noticeable in the bright sun) because it's plastic vs aluminium. I have Night Blue Pearl Effect (LZ5D)

Thanks for the walk-through! Not many people seem to know what they're doing enough to purchase and look over a car like this. I used phosphoric acid (calcium remover) dish cleaner from Fleet Farm to remove calcium stains from my car. Phosphoric acid is a weak acid, not a strong acid like HCl, and it's also not reactive with things like urethane since those are non-polar materials. Polar chemicals such as acids, don't react with non-polar chemicals and materials. We have a lot of Calcium in the water in my area of Minnesota as well. Mine was horrible until I installed a water softener and run my hose water through that now, so I can wash my car without using calcium remover.

Nice car. I have a 105,000 mi 2015 S6 and a 125,000 mi 2008 RS4 Cab. Almost twins!

What a beaute!

Dope

Use mother’s mag and aluminum on the window trim. Worked wonderful on mine

Congrats on the RS4. I was looking at them for awhile but was unable to get a good price. For the miniscule problems you have on yours Id say you did well on the deal with the mileage it has. Oil leaks are a common thing on any European car with their recommended 10k services. Just reseal the engine and it will be prime. Unless you're insane like me and want a manual V10 or W12 in the car like a lunatic Lmfao. Have Fun tho with whatever you do.

The chain tensioners are STILL a problem on the RS4. See "Customer agreed to repair the RS4 . Lets build a V8 ! Audi RS4 B7 is going back on the roads" on here.

it was still a good purchase! those sedans are pretty rare

Great car you will have your hands full with maintenance, even more than my C5 allroad if you can believe that. LOL. If you think your going to need parts start looking now a lot of them are very limited with long lead times. My buddy had to wait 5 weeks to get an alternator from Germany. The Audi stock system only showed 3 available worldwide.

The flaps on these cars don’t just cause power issues if they fail, they can 100% get sucked into the piston chamber and write off the engine. If when you carbon clean the car they are still there, then get rid of them. Loads of reading about it, but just leave the linkages in and the car won’t throw up an error code. 👍🏻

@ignitionTubeYT quick tip for you on the window trim oxidation. If you use (0000 automotive grade steel wool with 3d 602 metal polish) this will completely remove any oxidation. I know this from experience on 3 B7's

Hi, long time viewer, recent subscriber ( sorry for that ). You got me into buying an Audi s4 b8,5. It's been a great car and all now resting on a custom mapped Stage1 with a TCU tune, the only issue i've been running into recently is that the car is starting the short burst rattle on cold start for like a second... So i'm pretty sure those are my chaintensioners starting to go.. so i've decided to let them fixed, but since this will be a effin expensive engine out job i was wondering what i could change/fix in the meantime while that engine is out.. the PCV is going too just wondering if there is anything else i def. want to take with it. Unfortunately it's all out of warranty, but hey there is no better bang for your bucks(wel euro..) cars around here in this country so why not.

The value issue is really what's kept me from snagging the b7 s4 they actually have pretty decent prices right now

New Sub here! I would like a detailed carbon cleaning video along with a video on the sunroof fix

daaaammmm nice!

Curious... why do you not have the Recaro seats? did yours not come with them or did you remove them?

I do love these tho drove one when I worked at Mavis

At that price its Awesomeness

What about the bumper sag on the front passenger side? Easy fix as well

I miss mine. Daytona Grey/ Avus silver