A8 High mileage

[cathedral60]

Originally Posted by Joe2.0E

I would not be afraid of high miles on a 3.0TDI D3, I had a 2004 one for 5 years, bought it with 60k and it had 230k on it when I bought a D4. It was serviced every 10k miles from new. I had the ATF changed at 60k/120k/180k as a precaution but gearbox never gave any problems. Other than routine servicing, the car got one rear wheel bearing, an egr valve and 2 sets of glowplugs over its lifetime.
My advice would be to find a car with as few owners as possible rather than looking at the odometer. People that hang on to their cars for several years generally look after them in my experience.
Southern Ireland might be worth a look if you can find one, the €1494 road tax on pre 2008 cars makes them pretty hard to sell on. Sterling/Euro rate is quite favourable and you can claim a VRT rebate for permanent export.
Happy Hunting.

thanks it makes sense
the south cars tend to be fine but low spec, the english cars seem to have more goodies

[snapdragon]

My D3 is on 240,000 miles. The reg no. is OV55 Y?? like the one in the Gumtree ad. The poor english on the ad would make me dubious. When I was looking for my A8, I must have been to see 3-4 A6s around the country (actually all around London) being sold by roma gypsies that were clocked from even higher mileages and they were all full of bull**** stories too. The radios were all tuned for Radio Budrea etc..

[cathedral60]

Originally Posted by snapdragon

My D3 is on 240,000 miles. The reg no. is OV55 Y?? like the one in the Gumtree ad. The poor english on the ad would make me dubious. When I was looking for my A8, I must have been to see 3-4 A6s around the country (actually all around London) being sold by roma gypsies that were clocked from even higher mileages and they were all full of bull**** stories too. The radios were all tuned for Radio Budrea etc..

that has me worried to m8 hard to find a good one it seems

[roberto]

make a £6000 offer on this one

http://www2.autotrader.co.uk/classif...esel&make=audi

or this one

http://www2.autotrader.co.uk/classif...ault&logcode=p

or up your budget but still make a daft offer on this one

http://www2.autotrader.co.uk/classif...ault&logcode=p

[Joe2.0E]

A lot of A8's in Ireland came from UK as used imports or were Audi Ireland Dealer Demos, hence you should be able to find the spec you want.
Avoid Donedeal.ie, seems to be full of clocked/crashed cars.
Carzone.ie would show a lot of reasonably decent dealer stock.

[cathedral60]

thanks m8 the hunt will continue

like the thought of the southern one as it would be less hassle travel wise

[steamship]

The second one that Roberto listed is just up the road... well 60 miles up the road!

[cathedral60]

cheers might have to save for a while longer by the looks of it
ah well good things come to those who wait...so I've heard anyway