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My former mechanic kept his shop immaculate like Ninja's. He did great work and was honest to a fault. Haven't been able to find as good a mechanic since he retired.
This is the kind of project that originally brought me to Hoovies YT channel. I hope he continues this tradition of finding interesting, classic cars that can be brought back to life and used again as they were once intended. No more brand new cars or trucks please.
The budget-busting repair costs are exactly why the used market prices for these cars are so low, you know. Of course, depreciation is multi-faceted; reliability or lack thereof is just one factor in the equation. My Grand Marquis is reliable and cheap to fix, but Ford made a ton of them and they aren't cool cars to most people.
Well he keeps buying eurotrash which is how he keeps his channel afloat with views, otherwise he wouldn't have a channel of hoopties with toyota's, honda, acura's or lexus.
I love how Tyler's love for cars shows, in the way he spends his money on them. I specifically watch Hoovie because your care shines through and its not all about earnings!
Audi absolutely nailed their styling around 2008-2010: A5 and A7 are absolutely beautiful! Even the A4 and the Q5 of the period look fantastic for what they are.
non mantained one... All those issues could have been so easily prevented with proper maintenance. Probably used cheap gas too on not to few occasions.
@@AI-qd4vb Yes, most of the issues could be prevented with the proper maintenance, but most people here in the US don’t do it either due to cost or they don’t care/know, hence why it’s sold on for cheap.
I have a white '08 and I absolutely LOVE it! So far (4 years already!) no major problems. Did a carbon clean and the Oil housing gaskets myself about a year ago. If one considers what mid teens buys you nowadays, I'd say these are a decent bargain if you can do a few things yourself or can make peace with the repair costs if it does break. Loved that you did some content on one!
A lot of people are afraid of high mileage bmws but I have been seeing a lot go on sale with 150k miles for a bargain price. Even if you have to throw in 3k to make it mechanically perfect, I think it's worth it as long as it doesn't look beat up.
@@stevelouie5928 someone near me was trying to sell a 300k mile clapped out 3 series for 7 grand. A week later it was 3500 and a week after that it got scrapped. Bargains are getting hard to find for sure.
I agree. I bought my first car, which was a 2008 Audi A6 4.2l Quattro S-line in an auction for $4200 after tax. It has 162k Miles, but the people regretted to tell me the transmission was toast. After 7 months of sitting and fixing, plus 5k in repairs, it been running and driving reliably. I'm at 178k Miles and while I do have oil and coolant leaks, it was never really a problem if u had an oil pan to put underneath. All my friends are always asking to buy it off me or to keep it for the day. Im 18 now and I still love my Audi ❤️
@@jacobbenton1147 Beat up economy cars are selling for 5k. Might as well buy a higher mileage european car for cheap and throw another 5k into and drive something fun. There are a lot of gems out there for 5k or less that are really clean. I just saw a 3 series wagon for under 4k with high miles. Even the first gen ML320s can be had for 3 - 5k tops. You could turn that into an off road beast.
@@stevelouie5928 the 163 mls are all junk now though, I’d rather pay a little more for a 164 cause they hold up way way better. Not everyone has 15k to throw at a German car though.
I just wish it wasn't JR garage. They lied about how they funded everything and one of the brothers recently killed a friend street racing. Fuck those guys.
I learned early in my automotive journey that the floor of a mechanics shop is one reflection of the quality of their work and attention to detail. You could eat soup off of Ninjas shop floor. Bravo
The reason for running coolant through that intake part is to keep it warm under very cold conditions and prevent "carburetor icing". There's probably a venturi in either the throttle body or the mass flow sensor. If you're driving in cold and humid conditions, the venturi will cause a pressure drop and a temperature drop in the intake air, and that will cause water to condense and freeze. That will eventually choke off the air supply. When this happens in an airplane it's Very Bad with a capital Bad. I learned this in my 1979 Lancia Beta, which has a sideways Fiat 131 motor. The carburetor and intake manifold point forward into the cold intake air. One freezy sleety night driving in the Colorado Rockies I experienced this problem: I had some power at full throttle or no power at part throttle or idle. I stopped at an intersection and found a dumpster. In it I found a sweater, which I stuffed under the intake manifold and wrapped it all around. I let it warm up and drove on. The engine was happy … until the spring, when the carburetor got all vapor-locked.
Oh, yes, I learned a great deal about auto maintenance from my Lancia. Then I got a Honda and forgot it all. A BMW that would have been a great Hoovie story that I paid $3k for ($27k too much) taught me again. Now my Prius is, thankfully, letting me forget my car maintenance skills … aside from signing the credit card receipt.
I own a 2003 Passat with the i4L 2.0 20V ALT, which is essentially the same architecture, esp. since the ALT is an Audi engine. The MAF is a platinum wire located just after the air filter. The throttle bodies on these cars are all electronic (EPC), so it's just a butterfly valve with a solenoid in the TB itself. There isn't any kind of Venturi valve, as such. The vacuum is created by the motion of the pistons combined with outside atmospheric pressure. The fuel runs in a loop (tank to rail and back to the tank again) via a pressure regulator, and the ECU controls the injector opening duration. The PCV vents in to the intake stream upstream of the MAF and downstream of the TB on my ALT, so maybe that helps keep the butterfly valve warm in cold weather. Not sure whether this maybe had to be routed differently on the V8 engines? Either way, I agree with your analysis in principle, and a quick search confirms that the reason for the design was indeed to prevent the butterfly valve from icing up in weather where the temperatures are below freezing. That said, I still find it odd/interesting that Audi felt the need to add this extra heating element to the TB on the V8. The exhaust manifolds on these cars chuck out some serious heat, and they're located beneath the cold air intake. Plus cold air is better in the intake (denser O2 content), so it seems counter-intuitive to heat it. Suspect this may be a bit of a gimmick to give the driver a sporty throttle response immediately upon entering the car, even when the engine is cold and there's snow outside. Obvs redlining a cold engine will significantly shorten its service lifespan, but maybe that's what a cynical person might say the manufacturer intended....?
@@Grantidge69 Icing in the throttle bore has always been an issue, carb or FI, car or airplane. In days of yore, 4 cylinder engines or straight 6's, the carbs and intake manifolds were usually mounted right above the exhaust manifold. And some still had some provision for coolant or exhaust heat to keep them warm. Merely a few decades ago, my fuel injected GTI (8V, HT or RD code) had a throttle body with no coolant hoses going to and from it, and it wasn't directly near the exhaust (but not too far away.) Took me a day or two of thinking about this to remember -- there's a thermostatically controlled flap in the air filter box, to either draw completely outside air in mild or hot weather, but in cold weather, a door moved and air was pulled from a duct right up against the exhaust manifold. Nowadays, they use coolant hoses. I'd like to think they've got a thermostat to reduce the addition of heat to the incoming air when it's not needed. Even without a venturi, I suspect there's still a pressure drop after the throttle butterfly.
@@theundergroundlairofthesqu9261 Thanks for the response and info. I just went out and had a look at my i4L... and there is indeed a spigot on the hard coolant line above the intake manifold that diverts coolant through the throttle body. !! Kind of embarrassed now. Thought I knew my engine architecture pretty well.... Every day is a school day, huh? I note the heat shield by the air filter housing extends up and under the MAF sensor housing, as it is located above the exhaust manifold and cat. So I think this architecture is intended to keep the butterfly valve warm, but not so much the actual charge air. And yes: the more the butterfly valve opens, the more the air pressure will drop, but the air mass increases, so the outside atmospheric pressure can push a greater volume of air into each chamber on its intake stroke, all the way up to WOT. There is defo also a MAP sensor on this i4L, so there is a constant comparative calculation between the MAF and the MAP data, and the data from the O2 sensors taking place. Gotta 💌 engineers, right?
These Audi V8's direct injection engines are an absolute nightmare, the valves requiring walnut blast cleaning is just the tip of the iceberg! Buying an S3 isn't dodging a bullet Tyler...lol
Thank you for saving this car. I’m a BMW/Mercedes guy through and through, but this gen S5 with the V8 and 6 speed I’ve always had a soft spot for. Brilliant car :)
i love the S5. its a timeless design. good exhaust note (the V8) yadda yadda. its a shame & a blessing audi values plummet. its such a good looking car & like u said. so much car for under 25k.
Great video about S5. Those are phenomenal cars; even if in Europe, the repairs are sometimes "cheaper" or easier. My S4 Avant 4.2 Manual, sometimes asks for a lot of money, but always delivers incredible fun, especially in winter.
@@ArcofZen These V8 sound really great. have a B7 S4, so it's port-injected, and the last time I checked, intake was reasonably clean. If you want to make yours faster, try Jackal Motorsports tunes. Slowly I am preparing to port my intake and try out what "Stage 3" might offer.
@@nelietis96 is it much effort to check? I had a TT years ago, mapped to ~265bhp which felt quite rapid. I know my B7 is heavier but it still doesn’t feel like it has 339bhp!
@@ArcofZen You would have to remove the whole intake to take a look, but it's not really a problem, that B6 and B7 have. Mine was replaced due to the flap not operating and reducing torque at low rpm when I fixed the carnage that was left after the chain decided to jump a tooth. It jumped because I decided to participate in a track day with broken guides😅 Now RS4 guides, all new seals all around, working intake flap and she is pulling strong. Because I got the car so cheap, even after engine replacement/tune-up, car cost me the same amount as a good example from Germany would cost to import. As this is the fastest car that I have ever driven or owned, so for me on the street it's plentiful and track cares more about handling anyways.
Nice Audi, and nice job Ninja. I had to do the same de-carb on my 2008 S6 V10 as the valves where almost blocked with carbon, i noticed a huge difference in power
If you do the work yourself, which takes skill, experience, facilities and equipment.....then it works. Most people can't so don't. If you can, that's a saving!
FYI, the reason coolant runs through the throttle body is to keep the throttle valve from freezing while open. Happened to me one winter when I blocked that line off, found out that hose was important the very scary way after I couldn't stop and nearly rear-ended someone.
I've always loved these things but been scared to own one. But the look on Ninja's face in the end makes me really want to take the plunge. He can never hide his feelings about a car, and you know it's good when he gets giddy.
It's my understanding that coolant runs through the throttle to heat it up so it doesn't freeze. I remember some people bypassing there's in temperate climates to lower intake temps.
That's a good looking Audi! I'm biased because it looks like mine, but without that nice interior. And a manual V8? Love it. How comfortable are those seats?
@@speedboard. Nice! I don't drive mine enough, and I don't get to enjoy putting the top down very much where I live, so it sits like one of Hoovie's hoopties...
I have the exact same S5 except with tiptronic transmission. I did the same job (Carbon clean and oil filter housing o-ring replacement) in 6 hrs. I am not a trained technician but was able to research all the info needed to do it right. The point being that if your willing to learn, owning older German cars is not as scary as some make it out to be.
Still one of my all-time favorite cars! I actually test-drove a brand new S5 back in 2008 and I just remember thinking it was my ultimate dream car at the time. Crazy that you have that same car now for just $6900 (well, plus repairs)! Just a cracking great deal!
He's said no to a few cars but yeah, it's usually because he expects them to be absolute headaches, but those headaches seem to be ones the Ninja has had so many times he doesn't even feel them anymore.
One thing you can count on... if Ninja tells you it needs to be replaced, it *REALLY* needs to be replaced and nobody will do the job better. Also, Ninja has to be getting tired of fixing Hoovies Garbage. ;)
I just recently stumbled upon your channel. And I just enjoy what you do. And the cars that can keep running. Yes you buy them cheap but they are pricey to fix and maintain. Thank you for the great content.
Wow, what a nice Audi S5! I have a 2014 S5 and would love to drive that manual V8!! My first Audi was a 2001 S4 6M and I loved it (once I put in a short throw shifter) but growing family forced a sale :(
@@BA-gn3qb I've seen a time or two when there's been an issue or two, even Tyler's cars sometimes, but the Wizard really seems to know a thing or two about fixing cars and doing it right. But I guess I don't know
@@jaybeemhardscrote7466 - Been watching Hoovie for quite a while now. Never a problem having a car fixed by Ninja. Always problems with Wizard. Ninja's place is cleaner and well run. Not Wizard's. He also never finishes his own pet projects, and recently sold some incomplete to others.
I had a manual 2010 Audi S5 V8. muffler delete, and it’s sounded glorious. also put in a short shifter. drove fantastic! miss that car. actually prefer it over my 2021 RS5, for many reasons.
HAHA i watched JR's video this morning and thought to myself. I wonder if Hoovie will make an appearance soon. Boom a few hours later there you are in your own video!
I'll buy it and finish restoring it. It has a cracked core support and some other issues with the body but I'll take it when you are ready to sell Tyler.
I've got a '13 S5 (yes I know not the V8, but the supercharged V6 is a fantastic engine. You keep them up to date on maintenance and they're amazing cars.
I got a 2012 s5 will be doing the work my self this car is sick i love it.. once i get it mechanically sound i will be adding qtp cut out to hear that beautiful 4.2 roar 😮
Hoovies videos help a lot of people make informed decisions to buy and restore cars and trucks and Also informs you of the cost of repairs plus or minus a few hundred or thousands. And the comedy is great for people who have dealt with issues like the one that pop up in his videos
