A8; time to die?
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My 1997 A8 2.8 Sport is, I think, at the end of its life. 
With 95k on the clock, it drove like a new car until it developed a transmission fault, which I have spent hundreds trying to track down. The selector switch that the fault codes suggested was faulty was replaced to no avail. The latest is that I replaced the ECU, but the replacement has burnt out the same pins in the connection as the original - that was a symptom then, not the fault. In addition it needs two new tyres, an alternator, the windscreen wipers have packed up, and it has no MoT. I've just paid £90 for a new battery.
So its sat immobile on the drive, and I just don't want to throw any more money at it. Truth is I don't have any - what money I can raise is going into my TVR engine rebuild. I could get £600 from a dismantler, and I'm tempted. I could probably have traded it for £4000 before the transmission fault reared its head, so I've lost £3400 there, plus over a grand I've spent trying to get it fixed.
Time to give up? It seems such a waste.
With 95k on the clock, it drove like a new car until it developed a transmission fault, which I have spent hundreds trying to track down. The selector switch that the fault codes suggested was faulty was replaced to no avail. The latest is that I replaced the ECU, but the replacement has burnt out the same pins in the connection as the original - that was a symptom then, not the fault. In addition it needs two new tyres, an alternator, the windscreen wipers have packed up, and it has no MoT. I've just paid £90 for a new battery.
So its sat immobile on the drive, and I just don't want to throw any more money at it. Truth is I don't have any - what money I can raise is going into my TVR engine rebuild. I could get £600 from a dismantler, and I'm tempted. I could probably have traded it for £4000 before the transmission fault reared its head, so I've lost £3400 there, plus over a grand I've spent trying to get it fixed.
Time to give up? It seems such a waste.
Might be worth chucking it on Ebay, you'd get more than £400 for it. Or give www.allaudi.co.uk a bash, specialist dismantlers.
agent006 said:Good idea, it worth more than a sprout for sure.
Might be worth chucking it on Ebay, you'd get more than £400 for it. Or give www.allaudi.co.uk a bash, specialist dismantlers.
Hell, if it's going to be scrapped for £600, i'll give you £700 and a packet of werthers originals for it.
I sold my old 2.8 100 on ebay, and it was by far the most pleasant ecperience of all the advertising i tried. the local paper just ended up with loads of nutters wanting to meet me in supermarket carparks. Autotrader just got loads of buyer matching services and one bloke who didn't buy it. Ebay got one emailed question and then a couple who rocked up, drove it and then he whipped out a wodge of cash and they went away with a new car for bang on the asking price.
Just set a reserve as the minimum you'd take for it, and a "Buy it now" at what you want for it then off you go.
I sold my old 2.8 100 on ebay, and it was by far the most pleasant ecperience of all the advertising i tried. the local paper just ended up with loads of nutters wanting to meet me in supermarket carparks. Autotrader just got loads of buyer matching services and one bloke who didn't buy it. Ebay got one emailed question and then a couple who rocked up, drove it and then he whipped out a wodge of cash and they went away with a new car for bang on the asking price.
Just set a reserve as the minimum you'd take for it, and a "Buy it now" at what you want for it then off you go.
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